Talking about the Mozilla Firefox browser is talking about software that offers you the power to do things more easily and more efficiently than with any other.
The browser in question in this article offers us the best combinations of features possible today, such as tabbed browsing or blocking pop-up windows, among many other possibilities.
Firefox, in my opinion, stands out from any other browser for different reasons or characteristics that I expose below:
1.- Browse with tabs
The Mozilla Firefox browser greatly facilitates browsing and with this makes any user feel comfortable using it quickly. This improvement is due in part to the tabbed browsing we found in its use. This tabbed browsing changes the way we use the Internet by allowing us to open links to different pages in “tabs” in the background and then view them when ready.
No confusing new windows, no need for context menus, just hold down CTRL while clicking a link. Tabbed browsing is central to the Mozilla Firefox browser, which can set our home page to be a group of tabs and can also open an entire bookmarks folder in tabs. This browser quirk, which opens the contents of the bookmarks folder in tabs, is colloquially called “open in tabs.”
2.- Block pop-up windows
By using Mozilla Firefox, we managed to stop the popups that bother so much, to get to navigate in a more friendly way.
There are quite a few sites that legitimately use popup windows, what this browser does is block one of these windows, showing a bar below the navigation bar, with a button that offers us several options to configure the popup blocker.
3.- Create your own navigation bars
Firefox allows you to create new navigation bars apart from the ones you already have, with additional options that can save you clicks and facilitate access to features that are widely used by each one.
4.- Optimal markers
Mozilla Firefox facilitates the task of coordinating our bookmarks with the bookmark manager, thanks to which we can create folders to stack similar items. Particular annotations can also be attached to remind us why we have marked a particular item.
There are numerous property options for sorting, such as by name, address, date of last visit, etc. Mozilla Firefox also allows us to associate a keyword with any bookmark, and thus open it just by typing the keyword in the browser’s address bar. Bookmarks can also be opened in a side panel with CTRL+B.
5.- Faster to find things
In general, much of the time we spend using a browser is spent searching for things. With Mozilla Firefox there is direct access to the most common search engines, since it integrates a text field to search in the navigation bar itself. We can go to the search field by pressing CTRL+K, enter what we are looking for and press Enter to search Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, etc.
6.- Have better accessibility
With Mozilla Firefox we have a large set of “keyboard shortcuts” that we can use. For example, with CTRL+L the address bar is quickly focused. And when you press CTRL+K, the search bar. To open a new tab, CTRL+T, CTRL+S saves the current page, or CTRL+F4 closes a tab and CTRL+TAB changes the active tab.
On the other hand, data filled in web forms is remembered by Mozilla Firefox, so that searching for something again, or filling in things like your name or address is a simple process.
7.- Simplified privacy
Your privacy is important to us. With Mozilla Firefox it becomes easier to find the information that the browser saved while browsing, such as things you have filled in forms, Cookies, files you have downloaded, pages you have visited (history), and so on. You can easily clear any of these things from the Privacy panel in Tools, Options. There is a direct key combination to clear private information, with CTRL+SHIFT+DELETE .
8.- Password manager
Mozilla Firefox also includes a useful Password Manager that automatically fills in username/password fields on sites that require you to identify yourself. At any time you can delete or view the saved passwords, through Tools-options-privacy-passwords.
9.- More space for pages
Mozilla Firefox places a lot of value on the space available for pages, so it has more space dedicated to web pages than other browsers. And we can get even more space if we rearrange the content of the toolbars. In addition, Firefox also offers us a full screen mode (Press F11 to enter / exit) that gives even more of the screen to the web page.
10.- Improved extensions for developers
Of course, we must end this article by commenting that Firefox has many aids focused on web developers. Starting with the “view source code” option, which opens a window to see the code in a much clearer way, with different colors. With very useful in-code search options. Also, when viewing the source code, we can press F5 to reload it, requesting the page from the server again. It’s like reloading the web to see changes, but seeing them directly in the source code.
But the most interesting are the Firefox extensions, which allow you to extend the browser with the most varied functionalities, some more useful than others. There are many extensions that are very useful for web developers. We have commented on all this in other articles on .com:
Conclusion on using Firefox
We are facing an exceptional product. Once we have gotten used to using Firefox, it becomes very difficult to go back to using another browser. Internet Explorer itself has paid much attention to Firefox to make its next version (7), whose release is very close. We’ll see if it manages to reach the level of Firefox in terms of ease of use and navigation aids.
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