Browsing Tips

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Browsing Tips

• Mozilla Firefox

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About Firefox

• Available at http//www.mozilla.org
• Maintained by the Mozilla Foundation
• Available for Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Unix

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The Mozilla Project

• Open source project launched by Netscape in 1998
• Named for the code name for Netscape Navigator
• Current Projects
• Mozilla web browser
• Firefox web browser
• Thunderbird e-mail client

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Mozilla Home Page
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Key Features

• Tabbed browsing
• Full screen mode
• Popup blocking
• Cookie control
• Customizable toolbar
• Sidebars
• Import/export bookmarks
• Extensions
• Plugins
• Themes

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Options

• General (home page)
• Privacy (cookies)
• Web Features
• Popup blocker
• Software controls
• Downloads
• Advanced
• Tabbed browsing
• Software updates

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Tabbed Browsing
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Tabbed Browsing
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Tabbed Browsing
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Privacy Settings
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Advanced Settings
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Advantages

• Stable
• Lives peacefully alongside Microsoft products
• Does not break Windows
• Does not change your default browser without your
  permission
• More secure than Internet Explorer
• Community of developers and testers
• Not tightly integrated with Windows OS
• Does not support ActiveX

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Disadvantages

• Cannot run Windows updates
• Does not support or properly display some web
  sites
• May not support as many third-party plugins
• Will not run your favorite malicious ActiveX
  controls ?