Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

While Firefox has lost a lot of its luster for me it is still my primary browser.  I have been using Firefox since the early 0.x days when it was still called Phoenix.  The original lore and draw was that it was based on open standards, was lite weight, and very fast.  Since then and partially due to the general change in web technologies and their implementation Firefox has joined the ranks of bloated, slow, hoggish browsers.  I've been looking something better but today it seems to be an issue of which is the least bad rather than which is the best.

Firefox has two exceptional values, flexibility and a vast selection of extensions.

Flexibility
While I have not personally delved to far into the flexibility arena, I do occasionally utilize customizations via the 'about:' menus.  Mozilla 'about:' is an entire set of subjects unto itself and will not be covered her.  Just know that it exists and query it in your favorite search engine.  You might find some options you like.

Extensions
Much like the do not track lists available in IE, there are many privacy extensions for Firefox from cookie management to script restriction, to do not track, to data obfuscation.
Some of my favorites include
NoScript
AdBlock
Netcraft AntiPhishing
Ghostery
Collusion


Alternately if you are looking for that Firefox feel with pre-built security in mind check out the custom version from Comodo, Comodo IceDragon


Mozilla Firefox