Mozilla Firefox is a
fast, light and tidy open source web browser. At its public launch in 2004
Mozilla Firefox was the first browser to challenge Microsoft Internet
Explorer’s dominance. Since then, Mozilla Firefox has consistently featured in
the top 3 most popular browsers globally. Although the browser’s market share
is lower for OS X, it is still one of the most popular browsers available on
the Mac platform. The key features that have made Mozilla Firefox so popular
are the simple and effective UI, browser speed and strong security
capabilities. The browser is particularly popular with developers thanks to its
open source development and active community of advanced users.
Easier
Browsing
Mozilla
put of a lot of resources into creating a simple but effective UI aimed at
making browsing quicker and easier. They created the tab structure that has
been adopted by most other browsers. In recent years Mozilla has also focused
on maximizing browsing area by simplifying toolbar controls to just a Firefox
button (which contains settings and options) and back/forward buttons. Th
e URL
box features direct Google searching as well as an auto predict/history feature
called Awesome Bar. On the right side of the URL box there are bookmarking,
history and refresh buttons. To the right of the URL box is a search box which
allows you to customize your search engine options. Outside of that a view
button controls what you see below the URL. Next to that you have the download
history and home buttons.
Speed
Mozilla
Firefox boasts impressive page load speeds thanks to the excellent JagerMonkey
JavaScript engine. Start up speed and graphics rendering are also among the
quickest in the market. Firefox manages complex video and web content using
layer-based Direct2D and Driect3D graphics systems. Crash protection ensures
only the plugin causing the issue stops working, not the rest of the content
being browsed. Reloading the page restarts any affected plugins. The tab system
and Awesome Bar have been streamlined to launch/get results very quickly too.
One criticism of Mozilla Firefox for Mac has been that flash videos played
through the browser can temporarily consume 100% of your CPU causing your Mac
to momentarily freeze.
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