We have all heard people say Firefox is the best browser ever, but never really heard why. In response here is a list of 5 ways in which Firefox is better than Internet Explorer.
1. It’s not included with Windows.
How is that a good thing? Well most users use Internet Explorer because it comes with windows. The problem is IE has a large market share because of that. As a result IE is the most targeted to malware. Since the more people use it the more people will want to harm it. (Same goes for Mac). So you are at a less of a security risk.
2. It’s customizable.
Sure IE can have add-ons, and bookmarks, but its add-on library is much smaller than Firefox. With Firefox you can change the look, what displays, the order of buttons, and the functionality. That way the browser is tailored for you, and not Microsoft’s general audience.
3. It’s Open Source.
(Open Source is free as in freedom). The value of Firefox being Open Source is that you can change it any way you want, if there is a bug you can report it, if you want to fix a bug you can, and you can help integrate new things into Firefox. This means it’s not tailored for just one environment, but all of them.
4. It’s Muti-platform.
It doesn’t matter if you are on Windows, or Mac, or Linux as Firefox will look the same for each, and will act exactly the same. That way you don’t have to change anything if you want to use a different OS.
5. It uses industry standards.
Firefox is tailored for the web, not Microsoft’s version of the web. It supports HTML5 (the latest web standard), and with that it supports codec free video. That way you don’t have to have a plugin to view the video on a webpage. While it has to be in the open source video format (.ogv) it will still work without a plugin that can put you at a security risk (flash). Firefox will soon support open fonts, so that the font on a webpage will be the same to everyone, that way you don’t have to worry about how it looks to different people.
So thats the 5 reasons why you should use Firefox instead of IE.
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