Firefox is perhaps the main default browser for those who really care about their browsing experience. Internet Explorer, is for better or for worse, defined by its relationship with Microsoft.
Firefox allows you to easily set up Google as your search provider whereas Microsoft tries to um, encourage you to use its search engine, which is not nearly as good. It’s a shame some websites still can’t use it but these are probably just temporary problems with a few sites that still use the non-standard Active X technology such as Netflix. Another big improvement over Explorer is Firefox’s ability to use thousands of add-ons that really improve your ability to surf the web. You can’t get rid of the ads with Internet Explorer like you can with Firefox.
FireFox 3.6, Namoroka is coming soon…
But just like all software they continue to improve it. Firefox 3.6, code named “Namoroka” will represent yet another decimal’s worth of upgrading after Firefox 3.5. What big improvements do they have in store? Well, they are promising a lot of little improvements in speed with what they call "user-perceptible performance metrics.” These are the times it takes for the various interactions with the screen such as opening tabs to take place. These times are measured in the milliseconds. Another improvement is automatic browser customization based on user history and the advent of low memory skins that can be easily changed on the fly.
Firefox 3.6 will have a number of exciting new features
Perhaps the most exciting new feature is the ability for the browser to run application type programs like word processing from the browser. This sounds like something that could possibly extend the functionality of Google Docs in some way. It’s said that Firefox 3.6 will allow interaction with the browser and browser-based apps on and off line seamlessly. This is a feature Google apps has in a beta form, but perhaps this will add some functionality since it’s also supposed to interact with the desktop OS at a more fundamental level.
Of course all these improvements make OS less of an issue. If you got used to running applications through the browser then you wouldn’t necessarily need any particular operating system and you could conceivably run the same programs on an open source OS that you could with the proprietary one. This would be a great thing for the end-user who currently has to put up with a lot of the inefficiency that has been an albatross around the neck of Microsoft OS offerings since its inception.
You will be able to download Firefox 3.6 from the Mozilla website
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