Windows Internet Explorer is presumably the best known and most used web browser. Commonly abbreviated IE, it, as the title suggests, browses or explores the internet for you. Personally, I prefer Mozilla Firefox over Windows Internet Explorer. Explorer 7 has taken advantage of “fast” web browsing by allowing users to surf the web using ‘tabbed browsing’. Tabbed browsing has been a tremendously fabulous improvement among today’s internet exploring. It works by showing ‘tabs’ in the browser window that let you jump from webpage to webpage with a single click. The point of using tabs while browsing the internet is so that you have the ability to have more than 1 site open at a time without cluttering the taskbar (the strip at the bottom of your screen that shows the different programs you have open, the start button, the time, etc.) When you have more than 1 tab open in Explorer 7 and you try to close it, it will warn you about closing multiple tabs (can be disabled in the options menu). If you ignore it and try to close the window anyway, it freezes your computer. Or if you try to close the entire window, that can also cause your computer to come to a standstill. In essence, Explorer 7 does not work well with tabbed browsing.
Mozilla Firefox on the other hand, I believe is one of the best web browsers ever. Firefox is more customizable than Explorer, with ‘add-ons’ downloadable from the Firefox website (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/). From here, you can get a multitude of Mozilla Firefox ‘add-ons’, including FoxyTunes, which allows you to control your iTunes music player from Firefox’s status bar. It allows you to listen to your music while you explore the web without having to switch windows. Other downloadables available on the Firefox add-ons website include ‘themes’, which allow you to modify the display color and layout of the browser window. There are also toolbars you can get that display a notification when you have a new message on MySpace or in your e-mail, ones that allow you to view the HTML or JavaScript content of a webpage (for web developers), and much, much more. Basically, you can do a lot more cool, custom and fun things with Firefox than with Explorer. Speaking of tabbed browsing; with Firefox, you can close the whole window (tabs and all) without freezing up your computer. It displays a confirmation, that says you are about to close “2, 3, etc. tabs” (depending on your settings) and then it closes with no problem.
So to summarize what I have written above; Firefox is a lot better than Explorer. Explorer 7 freezes your computer when you try to close it with 1 or more tabs open, and Firefox doesn’t. Explorer 7 takes a long time to load, whereas Firefox is up almost instantaneously. Firefox is also very customizable, which to a person like me is an indispensable part of my web-browsing experience.
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Windows Internet Explorer is presumably the best known and most used web browser. Commonly abbreviated IE, it, as the title suggests, browses or explores the internet for you. Personally, I prefer Mozilla Firefox over Windows Internet Explorer. Explorer 7 has taken advantage of “fast” web browsing by allowing users to surf the web using ‘tabbed browsing’. Tabbed browsing has been a tremendously fabulous improvement among today’s internet exploring. It works by showing ‘tabs’ in the browser window that let you jump from webpage to webpage with a single click. The point of using tabs while browsing the internet is so that you have the ability to have more than 1 site open at a time without cluttering the taskbar (the strip at the bottom of your screen that shows the different programs you have open, the start button, the time, etc.) When you have more than 1 tab open in Explorer 7 and you try to close it, it will warn you about closing multiple tabs (can be disabled in the options menu). If you ignore it and try to close the window anyway, it freezes your computer. Or if you try to close the entire window, that can also cause your computer to come to a standstill. In essence, Explorer 7 does not work well with tabbed browsing.
Mozilla Firefox on the other hand, I believe is one of the best web browsers ever. Firefox is more customizable than Explorer, with ‘add-ons’ downloadable from the Firefox website (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/). From here, you can get a multitude of Mozilla Firefox ‘add-ons’, including Foxy Tunes, which allows you to control your iTunes music player from Firefox’s status bar. It allows you to listen to your music while you explore the web without having to switch windows. Other downloadables are available on the Firefox add-ons website include ‘themes’, which allow you to modify the display color and layout of the browser window. There are also toolbars you can get that display a notification when you have a new message on MySpace or in your e-mail, ones that allow you to view the HTML or JavaScript content of a webpage (for web developers), and much, much more. Basically, you can do a lot more cool, custom and fun things with Firefox than with Explorer. Speaking of tabbed browsing; with Firefox, you can close the whole window (tabs and all) without freezing up your computer. It displays a confirmation, that says you are about to close “2, 3, etc. tabs” (depending on your settings) and then it closes with no problem.
So to summarize what I have written above; Firefox is a lot better than Explorer. Explorer 7 freezes your computer when you try to close it with 1 or more tabs open, and Firefox doesn’t. Explorer 7 takes a long time to load, whereas Firefox is up almost instantaneously. Firefox is also very customizable, which to a person like me is an indispensable part of my web-browsing experience.
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