Sketches of Raj

"Successful leaders recognized that before they could change the direction of their team or organization, they have to change themselves. Highly effective leadership begins with self-leadership. If you're not improving, you can't be an effective team, organization or family improvement leader."

Extensive usage of Internet world over started the war of browsers. As the Internet usage is growing faster, the threats like the hacking, security, virus etc are also growing proportionately. The requirement of a browser's supporting system also increased. Many companies started promising their browser as the best. In this war, Internet Explorer from Microsoft dominated the field for many decades.

To beat this product, many companies created their own standards to make their browser a mark. Main drawback with IE (Internet Explorer), as Bill Gates once explained, " HTML is our data type". Yes, from the Windows version of 98, IE is part of the OS kernel. It means you cannot un-install IE from the Window OS. IE is so much customizable that you can even access API of the Windows, even by using JavaScript, a client side scripting program. In this customizable environment, many types of software can be installable into the OS easily. IE uses local operating system files like DLLs, by which any program from Internet can be easily installed into the operating system. Also in market, as free, plug-ins are available for IE which may be downloaded and plugged-in into IE easily which are mostly dangerous that it can crash your system.

Mozilla Firefox, a browser primarily designed for search to be secure, fast and customizable. As per expert's opinion, it is the safe browser available in market today. As it does not contain any vulnerable attachments like ActiveX components, which are often used to install Spyware on IE. Firefox is developed using a XML like language called XUL, which is mainly used for the browser customizing. Mozilla Firefox Browser is still in developmental stage with the involvement of a huge community of volunteer coders. The coding is monitored for any vulnerability check, and if found any, it is corrected and an update made available in days or sometimes hours, to avoid the bugs of IE.

Firefox uses the powerful rendering engine Gecko, which is found in all Mozilla products. Gecko has superb support for all those features, which any web developer loves to have such flexibility. It's rendering is accurate and fast.

Mozilla Firefox Browser has a vast space for customizing features like themes and extensions. Themes, like skins in many other applications, give the browser a whole new look. Users can customize the browser's look and feel into pre-developed themes available in Mozilla sites. Extensions are even better; anyone can custom build, to make the browser perform something special. Some extensions like, checking the Gmail account for new emails, blocking all ads, yahoo search bar, Google search bar etc. It is a vast place to choose themes and extensions today for Firefox. Firefox has an automatic updating tool, which finds the new updates of browser theme and extensions.

Tabbed browsing is the common feature readily available with Firefox, which reduces your desktop clutter by keeping all of your open web pages within Firefox main window. Experts' opinion that, this will speed up your machine by not creating multiple instances of a same application, where all the tabs inside a window works as thread rather that an individual process. Mozilla Firefox Browser offers popup blocking by default.

Just try it out :)

Useful links.

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Mozilla Firefox

Spread Firefox

Themes & Extensions

Mozilla Extensions