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Firefox is the Mozilla Project's web browser. The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance.

Your online security is our top priority. Firefox includes strict anti-phishing and anti-malware measures, plus easy ways to tell the good guys from the bad like our new one-click site ID info.

In the end, it’s all about you being able to do what you need to do on the Web. And with features like built-in spell checking, session restore and full zoom—not to mention more than 5,000 available add-ons—nobody makes it easier, helps you work better or saves you more time than Firefox. Edit description

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Features:

  • One-Click Bookmarking - Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
  • Instant Web Site ID - Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
  • Improved Performance - View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
  • Full Zoom - See any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.
  • Password Manager - Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
  • Smart Location Bar - Find the sites you love in seconds—enter a term for instant matches that make sense.
  • Platform-Native Look & Feel - Browse with a Firefox that’s integrated into your computer’s operating system.
  • And many more! See an expanded list here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
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Great - The power of extensions in firefox makes it the best brerowser there is... sure some might boast abot speed of chrome but when it comes down to it firefox is a customizable swiss army knife that is the best solution in internet trenches
~ anonymous on Jul 15, 2010

Just OK - Works fine, but compared to Chrome and even current versions of Safari (on a Mac) it is quite a bit slower. Was a great browser once, and the current Firefox 4 preview looks promising, but it is currently behind the times--especially on the Mac where it suffers from incredible performance problems. Also, it would be nice if they'd hire some artists to design a good clean non-ugly default UI, but that's just me.
~ anonymous on Jul 14, 2010

Just OK - very heavy on system resources.
~ anonymous on Jul 14, 2010

Just OK - Firefox started out lean, but it feels as though it has gained bloat over time. The dev team needs to cut the fat and bring Firefox back to its glory days.
~ anonymous on Jul 14, 2010

Just OK - Of course better than using IE or Safari, but I wouldn't suggest it. It's probably the slowest decent browser out there, page changes taking anywhere from 50% to 2-3x longer than Chrome/Chromium or Opera. The interface feels like a slightly prettier IE, very 2005. The add-on system will nag you nearly every time you run the application to update this or that, and each addon seems to take more and more memory and freely induces memory leaks (I've had sessions left open 24 hours suddenly bloating up my system
~ anonymous on Jul 14, 2010

Great - Greater than great. Firefox with the Ad Block Plus plugin is the only way to browse.
~ anonymous on Jul 13, 2010

Great -
~ anonymous on Jul 11, 2010

Great -
~ anonymous on Jul 10, 2010

Just OK - Bloated
~ anonymous on Jul 10, 2010

Great - Multiplatform, complete, reliable. Has a lot of extensions and active development.
~ anonymous on May 20, 2010

Great -
~ anonymous on Apr 29, 2010

Just OK - gecko is too slow of a rendering engine
~ anonymous on Apr 29, 2010

Just OK - Chrome is the only true competition to Opera, feature-wise that is.
~ anonymous on Apr 28, 2010

Great - Best browser by far. Customizable, stable, add-ons for everything.
~ anonymous on Apr 28, 2010

Just OK - Not bad. Just a little slow, buggy and "ugly" compared to Opera.
~ anonymous on Apr 28, 2010

Great - It conforms to standards better, easy to use and to configure, and it's more stable then I.E.
~ anonymous on Apr 22, 2010

Great - Highly configurable and secure and one thing that ad sites hate.... ADBLOCK PLUS!!
~ anonymous on Apr 20, 2010

Great - Firefox is more secure than IE and extremely customisable with options and plugins for nearly everything.
~ anonymous on Mar 22, 2010

Great - Great community and rich features :)
~ anonymous on Mar 22, 2010

Great - Fast and compatible
~ anonymous on Mar 22, 2010

Just OK - Slow, bloated, and ugly.
~ anonymous on Mar 21, 2010

Great - It just is
~ anonymous on Mar 20, 2010

Great - Extensions extensions extensions
~ anonymous on Mar 19, 2010

Just OK - It is way better than Internet Explorer, and it has many features and extensions. However, it has gotten slower through the years, unlike the older major versions of Firefox which were effectively"faster than Mozilla Suite".
~ dctucker on Mar 18, 2010

Great - Extensions like Adblock, flashblock, dictionary tooltip, firegestures make Firefox fit into my way of browsing. (And there's always IETab when your company's internal websites don't support modern browsers.)

I love the search bar, search keywords, and a lot of the little niceties that make going back to Internet Explorer unbearable.
~ pydave on Feb 5, 2010

Great - Do all what i want from a web browser, works like i want it work.
~ anonymous on Jan 27, 2010

Great - No other web browser makes web development as easy as Firefox with the many awesome add-ons that are easily installed.
~ Duke Spukem on Jan 2, 2010

Great - It's fast and has lots of features and plugins
~ anonymous on Sep 22, 2009

Just OK - It's slow and bloated.
~ anonymous on Sep 22, 2009

Great -
~ anonymous on Sep 21, 2009

Great - Only major browser to run on Linux, Windows and Mac. Useful plugins for blocking ads (Adblock Plus), debugging (Firebug), downloading Youtube videos (DownloadHelper). Still loses in speed to Chrome though.
~ anonymous on Sep 21, 2009

Great - Stable, fast, relatively secure, The best choice for browsers at all.
~ anonymous on Sep 21, 2009

Just OK - Takes longer to load and gets slower with every version on AJAX apps. Undisclosed checking for new versions in background results is in poor form. Try IE, Chrome or even Safari for smaller footprints and more responsive interface.
~ anonymous on Sep 21, 2009

Great - It's amazing. Stable and elegant, it is everything you could want in a browser for any platform.
~ guitarMan666 on Sep 20, 2009

Great - adblock+ alone makes it outstanding
~ anonymous on Aug 7, 2009

Great - Open, free and secure
~ anonymous on Aug 7, 2009

Great - It runs Ad Blocker Plus (ABP)
~ Unxs on Aug 7, 2009

Just OK -
~ anonymous on Aug 7, 2009

Great - Excellent customization and security!
~ anonymous on Aug 7, 2009

Just OK -
~ anonymous on Aug 7, 2009

Just OK - It is slooow. But the plugins are excellent.
~ anonymous on Aug 7, 2009

Just OK - Slow as hell, especially on older hardware.
~ anonymous on Aug 7, 2009

Great -
~ anonymous on Jul 25, 2009

Great - Easy, safe, fast and modular!
~ anonymous on Jul 23, 2009

Great - cos it rumbles.
~ anonymous on Jul 23, 2009

Great -
~ anonymous on Jul 23, 2009

Great - YEAH!
~ anonymous on Jul 23, 2009

Great - Cross platform, works well (enough) and great community.
Thousands of extensions!
~ DDevine on Jul 23, 2009

Just OK - U SUCK!
~ anonymous on Jul 23, 2009

Great - Why is it great? It's not Internet Explorer.
~ Henry Demarest on Jul 22, 2009

Great - Far more secure then Internet exploder aka virus inciter. Adblock, noscript, The web developer toolbar, and other plug-ins make it exceptionally secure. It being open source and standards compliant is a plus.
~ Jonathan Chance on Jul 22, 2009

Great - It is made of standards-respecting win, and also runs adblock to save my delicate little retine.
~ anonymous on Jun 27, 2009

Great - It's just great, and it doesin't get eaten by windoze viroses!

That's just great!

And it's: great!
~ anonymous on Jun 26, 2009

Great - Extensible, fast and smooth. The latest version improved speed, and CPU leaks. I recommend downloading this browser and giving it a go. If you're not a power-user, and have no need for extensions and configurable options, you might be more interested in Opera. Another great browser.
~ Spyware on Jun 25, 2009

Just OK - When Firefox will give user a control of Flash animations - great cause of CPU time and instability, it will be "Great". But this isn't going to happen...

~ Paul Sokolovsky on Jun 25, 2009

Great -
~ anonymous on May 27, 2009

Great - lots of add-ons make this the best browser out there.
~ anonymous on May 18, 2009

Just OK - Many powerful features, but XUL in OS X is a, well, less-than-native–feeling. Text rendering is also far less pretty than Safari.
~ Noah on May 18, 2009

Great - plugins ftw
~ anonymous on Apr 20, 2009

Great - The best of the best. 'Nuff said.
~ anonymous on Apr 19, 2009

Great - In an age in which all browsers have (more or less) the same basic functionality, one tends to look beyond the basics - and there Firefox outshines all.
~ jjj on Apr 11, 2009

Great - Fast, plugins are great for advanced users and evelopers, and they get security updates out to users fast. Everything you could want in a browser.
~ Mark Ramm on Apr 9, 2009

Great - The Best Browser since Peanut Butter was made. Cannot get a better Browser, Even if MS Went Open Source, LMAO
~ Marine2009 on Apr 3, 2009

Great - The new private browsing feature lets me look at as much porn as I want without getting caught!
~ anonymous on Apr 2, 2009

Great - The UI is amazingly efficient and memory use is constantly being decreased.

The number of useful extensions is nice too.
~ anonymous on Apr 1, 2009

Just OK - Navigation bar takes up too much vertical real estate. This is very important on laptops.
~ Cameron Bracken on Apr 1, 2009

Just OK - Every iteration gets more bloated and slower, with more idiotic UI "features."

Still the only one with a buttload of extensions though.
~ anonymous on Apr 1, 2009

Great - Firefox is great because it revitalized the web during a time of stagnation. It remains great because of its active approach to innovating and improving web browser technology.
~ anonymous on Apr 1, 2009

Great - Many useful add-ons.
~ anonymous on Apr 1, 2009

Great - It just works
~ anonymous on Apr 1, 2009

Just OK - ui is bloated
~ anonymous on Mar 31, 2009

Just OK - While Firefox is undoubtedly the best browser I have every used, it still could use some work. For example, when streaming video firefox will allow 'helper' applications to take unreasonable amounts of system resources and then not do a good job of cleaning up afterwords, leaving a system extremely sluggish until stopping and restarting Firefox.
~ HillHobbit on Mar 31, 2009

Great - Fast, secure and just awesome!
~ anonymous on Mar 31, 2009

Great - simple the best around
~ anonymous on Mar 31, 2009

Just OK - real problems with pdfs, google link compromises objectivity, addon site now plays favorites, no built in irc or bitorrent
~ anonymous on Mar 30, 2009

Just OK - Though I love firefox, for me it's gotten slower and less responsive over time and versions. I've now been driven to swiftfox which seems to retain the speed I experienced in earlier versions of firefox.
~ eternalelegy on Mar 30, 2009

Great - When it comes to browsers, it's hard to beat Firefox. I couldn't imagine browsing without some of the features I have become used to—excellent ad blocking thanks to Adblock Plus, an easily customizable interface, feed reading capabilities, web design tools, and much more. And even after you have customized Firefox to your taste, it still responds quickly and performs wonderfully!
~ JLS on Mar 14, 2009

Great - While a lot of attention has been paid to the webkit browsers like Chrome, I still like stability and the gazillion plugins Firefox offers.
~ Sysop on Mar 12, 2009

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