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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Firefox: Today’s Best Web Browser
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There has been a lot of interest from readers of the blog in Firefox. So I asked a real expert here - who also is a Firefox fan - to make some comments. He’s also agreed to field any questions that you leave here. So let me introduce Russ Oaks, senior systems engineer here at the AJC. He has more than 15 years experience in IT and 12 years in IT management. Feel free to ask him about Firefox.
The Firefox Web browser , by Mozilla, is today’s pre-eminent internet browser. All Web sites are designed to work with Firefox and it is designed to work on every operating system. It can be installed on any computer with Internet access. You can download it here. Just click on the Download Firefox link.
It can be made the default browser or can be set up to work when preferred. The primary reason Firefox is better than all other browsers is that it is fully customizable with more than 1700 extensions, 200 themes, and an automatic plug-in installer page. Extensions range from tabbed browsing controls, rss feed tools, weather forecasts, internet e-mail tools, and stock trading tracking tools.
Once you’ve installed Firefox, or if you are currently a Firefox user, go to the main menu bar, click on Tools, then extensions. A new screen with your currently installed extensions will come up. Click on the “Get More Extensions” link in the lower right corner and you will be taken to the add ons.mozilla.org website.
Extensions listed here can be installed and un-installed at-will so you can try as many as you like and if you don’t like how a particular extension works - just delete it. Some of the first extensions to try which are always useful are “Tab Mix Plus”, Toolbar Buttons, and ForecastFox.
Tab Mix Plus reallly works - you can set up each site you go to to open on a separate page or tab, for starters; “Toolbar Buttons” will allow you to customize your primary FireFox tool bar (especially the “restart Firefox now” button) and ForecastFox - for weather reporting, etc.
I’ll be glad to field any questions regarding extensions, plug-ins, and themes for Firefox.
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