Firefox - the new browser

During one of my previous posts, I talked about how Google videos help millions of people around the world to keep up-to-date. I recently discovered a better method of doing this - live feeds. If you are working in the field of IT, you would've heard about this new technology many times already (I will write more on live feeds in a future post). But, for the time being, just understand that live feeds is a means to automate the delivery of updated and newer information to the readers of host websites. It provides links to articles, audio clips or videos, depending on the type of information.

There are software tools to help keep up with live feeds - like the most popular RSS Reader. I've been using this till recently, before I discovered the new browser, talk of the IT industry - Firefox. Firefox is a browser similar to the Internet Explorer, but much more powerful. Internet Explorer is almost synonymous with the browsing experience, for most PC users. Even being technology savvy and knowing the power of software and knowing how it can change the lives of people involved, I was resistant to change over from my favorite browser. I didn't have an idea then, how powerful Firefox could be and it could change my browsing experience. Firefox is not just about browsing the internet, but about the newer capabilities it adds to a standard browsing experience. It is the browser for the new age, and adapts easily to changes. Firefox is open source technology, which means that programmers all over the world can make their own contributions to it. These changes can be small or big, which decides the impact it can make to be overall browsing experience. Firefox has provided a very convenient way to contribute these changes to it, called extensions (Link to website of extensions)

Another feature of firefox that immediately caught my attention is the concept of bookmarks. The concept is similar to that of Favorites in the Internet Explorer, but are more powerful. Bookmarks can be managed in folders, much like files. It supports live feeds, which is the main subject of my discussion here. However, I won’t discuss much about it here, but just say that to support a live feed inside Firefox, just select 'New live bookmark', specify the URL where the feed is available and you are ready to go. Every day ( or whichever frequecy the feed provides), you will get the updated information at the tip of your fingers.

I have been using Firefox for a couple of months now, and find it enormously useful (the only downside being tremendous hogging of memory - I believe Mozilla is actively on top it to solve the issue). I am still inventing newer and better way of doing things with it. Believe me, Internet Explorer (the next version of IE - IE7.0, not released yet, claims to have all that Firefox can do) seems to be just a toy in front of Firefox. Go get Firefox, this is the in thing now!