Firefox
To start with who don’t know about Firefox? I guess no one at least all those who are reading this post.
In short, Firefox was launched in 2002 with Codename as Pescadero and browser name as Phoenix.
Currently it is in stable version of 3.6 released a month ago and work is going on 3.7 which is in Alpha 4.
Most of us might be using Firefox but I tell you the power of open source is not limited. Thousands of add-on’s everyday makes Firefox great among list of browsers.
Add-on’s, as its name suggest it is add on to Firefox. Add on are small extensions
which are made by developers all round the world. Ad-Block is one such extension is which blocks the advertisements on websites and thus makes the loading faster. One latest add on is Archive View, I found it damn interesting it makes you see the contents of zip or rar file you downloading and you can download the specific file from the archive.
Another thing I love about Firefox is its configuration which you can change to any extension. Remember its open source, but you need to be careful while doing it, you may end up with something crap, don’t blame about this to anyone, I guess Mozilla just wanted to give developers full powers to play with their browser, that’s why its most developing browser from its release till now.
In my next post I will tell you how you can extend the capabilities of Firefox.
In my small observation I compared Google Chrome and Firefox (I love both the browser). I opened same website in both the browsers and none of the browser had any extension running same time. The Chrome was using 131,990k while Firefox was using 97,420k memory in total (data from task manager by Chrome and cross checked from task manager).
I love the start page of Google Chrome, for geeks who have many pages open in the tabs of browsers the Firefox is damn low on memory. Recently, checked a page which was using HTML-5 drag and drop API, it wasn’t working on Chrome and perfectly fine in Firefox, my love to open source forced me to add the website link to Google Bug Report, hope they correct it fast :)
Not to miss are the add-on’s like web-developer and Firebug a necessary tool for a Web-Developer. Also, check the master password thing in Firefox, it helps to remember all the passwords on websites secured using a single password.
If you are not using Firefox you can download it from here: GET FIREFOX.
Will be posting in few days about how to configure your Firefox to get best from it.
