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unknown714 wrote:
if u got firefox everthing is hard....
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but somebody in another site forum said this about mozilla firefox.
Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Although not officially released for certain operating systems, the freely available source code works for many other operating systems, including FreeBSD,[2] OS/2, Solaris, SkyOS, BeOS and more recently, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.[3]Version 4.0
The main features included with Firefox are tabbed browsing, incremental find (via the Find toolbar), Live bookmarking, an integrated download manager, and a search system. The user can customize his or her version of Firefox with downloadable extensions, a variety of different themes, and many advanced preferences not present in the Options dialog that are accessible via the about:config page.[12]
Firefox also provides an environment for web developers in which they can use built-in tools or extensions. These include the built-in JavaScript Console and the DOM Inspector.
[edit] Standards support
Mozilla Firefox supports many software standards, including, but not restricted to: HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSLT, XPath, SVG, and PNG images with alpha transparency.[13] Firefox also supports standards proposals created by the WHATWG such as the canvas element.[14]
Firefox uses SSL/TLS to protect communications with web servers using strong cryptography when using the HTTPS protocol.[16] It also supports smartcards for secure login to web servers. It uses a sandbox security model[17] and the developers use a "bug bounty" scheme, for finding fixes for some security[18] and feature additions. Official guidelines for handling security vulnerabilities discourage early disclosure of vulnerabilities so as not to give potential attackers an advantage in creating exploits. [19]
The fact that Firefox has fewer and less severe publicly known unpatched security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer (see Comparison of web browsers) is often cited as a reason to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox for improved security.[20][21][22][23] The Washington Post reports that exploit code for critical unpatched security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer was available for 284 days out of the 365 days in 2006. In comparison, exploit code for critical security vulnerabilities in Firefox was available for only 9 days before Mozilla shipped a patch to remedy the problem.[24]
A 2006 Symantec study showed that Firefox had surpassed other browsers including Internet Explorer in the number of vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities that year through to September, though these were patched more quickly than vulnerabilities found in IE and other browsers.[25] Symantec later clarified their statement, saying that Firefox still had fewer security vulnerabilities, as counted by security researchers.[26] Firefox currently has one security vulnerability marked "less critical" by Secunia.[27] Internet Explorer has three security vulnerabilities, the most severe of which is marked "moderately critical" by Secunia.[28]
these are some facts that indeed can establish the superiority of mozilla over other browser.
