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By: Danny West
While Apple computers may be gaining a reputation as the most popular home computer, chances are still good that if you are purchasing a new computer, the Microsoft Company will be backing your model. Thus, once you’ve readied your Internet connection, it is more than likely that you will use Internet Explorer to get you there. And, while this may be fine for the Internet’s casual user, anyone in need of a better performance from their web browser (or just more “protection” when looking at those sites that flood your monitor when no one else is home) has many options to consider.
IE’s 80% market dominance shows a decline in its users during recent years and with good reason.
The world’s second most popular web browser is the Mozilla Corporation’s Firefox, a program with as much hype as it has add-on features and security. The Firefox download, which typically takes less than a minute, is already poised with many helpful features including an integrated search system that allows the user to choose from seven different search engines including Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia. Firefox is also prepared for those users that may have spelling deficiencies with a standardized spell check feature. Additionally, the program comes with live book marking, a download manager and tabbed browsing -- a feature that IE jumped on in 2006, but has been incorporated into Firefox since 2001.
Firefox’s add-ons may make the browser as popular as it is practical as proven by the 1.5 million plus hits on Google for “must have Firefox extensions”, and with new and appealing features coming out regularly, one cannot deny that Firefox is quickly becoming the Internet’s uncrowned king of browsers.
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