![]() ![]() A powerful inbuilt PDF viewer that provides features such as thumbnails, page navigation is also available. A download manager is inbuilt where multiple downloads are possible with the facility to pause and continue stopped downloads. Also related to bookmarks are two features as live bookmarks and smart bookmarks. The latest Firefox versions support a feature called tabbed grouping where custom grouping of opened tabs is possible to identify them easily. ![]() An important feature in Firefox is tabbed browsing where the user can visit multiple websites at the same time and navigate them via tabs. Currently, Firefox can run in a variety of different platforms including Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, Firefox OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. It has a history of about 12 years where the initial release was done in September 2002. For example according to Six Revision’s performance tests, in all aspects, the performance of Internet Explorer is worse than other browsers such as Firefox and Chrome.įirefox is a free and open source web browser which is developed by Mozilla foundation with contributions from the community. Though Internet Explorer is a web browser with all up to date features, the greatest issue is the performance. Add-ons such as Flash Player, Microsoft silver light which are also known as ActiveX can be installed to give more capabilities to the browser. The settings on Internet Explorer are fully configurable via group policy and this is a unique feature. Currently features such as tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, private browsing, synchronization and download manager are available even though it was a bit late to introduce them when compared to Firefox. Also, Internet Explorer provides certain features in the Windows operating system such as Windows update. It not only acts as the browser but also provides the user interface to FTP giving the user with operations similar to Windows Explorer. The user interface on Internet Explorer is much simpler and cleaner and tallies with the interface of the Windows operating system. By today with the advent of many browsers such as Firefox and Chrome now it has dropped to the third place of about just 10% usage according statistics from W3counter. In the past, like in 2003, Internet Explorer was the world’s most widely used web browser where the percentage was even over 80%. Internet Explorer supports many standards including HTML 4, HTML 5, CSS, XML and DOM. The product is proprietary to Microsoft and hence is not open source. The product is available in about 95 different languages. While Internet Explorer is targeted only for Windows operating system, Microsoft does not provide setups for Linux and Unix operating systems. Currently, the latest release is Internet Explorer 11 which was released a couple of months ago in September 2014. It has a very old history where the first version was released in 1995 with Windows 95. Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and is bundled with its Windows operating system. In the past, Internet Explorer was the world’s most used web browser but today it has fallen to the third place while Firefox has caught up the second position. The performance of Internet Explorer is the greatest problem as according to many sources Firefox is much faster in every aspect including JavaScript, CSS rendering, Page loading, CPU usage and startup time. On the other hand, Firefox, which is by Mozilla Foundation, is open source and is available across multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS and even Free BSD. Internet Explorer 11 is the latest proprietary web browser by Microsoft designed for Windows operating systems. This article attempts to compare Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) and Mozilla Firefox 33 in order to identify the differences between the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox. ![]()
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