If you are tired of dealing with all the downsides of using Microsoft Internet Explorer, there is a solution for you.

Mozilla Corporation is the developer of Mozilla Firefox; a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox had 19.46% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of September 2008, making it the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide, after Microsoft Internet Explorer.

There are many advantages of using Mozilla Firefox, in fact, most web developers use Firefox as a default Web Browser because of its capabilities, yet only the good web developers are able to design cross-compatible websites.

An important feature on Firefox is the use of Gecko layout engine to display web pages, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to those.

To download the newest version of Mozilla Firefox please click on the banner on the right hand side.

Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. Functions can be added through add-ons created by third-party developers, the most popular of which include the NoScript JavaScript disabling utility, Tab Mix Plus customizer, FoxyTunes media player control toolbar, Adblock Plus ad blocking utility, StumbleUpon (website discovery), DownThemAll! download enhancer and Web Developer toolbar. There is even a Reminder tool, very handy by the way.

From my point of view, Mozilla Firefox is twice as good as Internet Explorer, no wonder the guys from Microsoft recently released a new version of their Internet Browser, they lost way too many users because of the lack of security and speed.

Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.0.3, released on September 26, 2008. Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license GPL/LGPL/MPL.

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