The Bottom Line
Mozilla is a great free browser that supports modern XHTML, XML, and CSS technologies, but the popup blocker and tabbed windows are the real benefits of this browser.
Pros
- Tabs make it easy to view multiple pages
- Popup blocker built-in
- Supports XHTML, XML, CSS, and more
Cons
- None
Description
- Mozilla handles the modern technologies quickly and and effectively.
- It has many of the features of Internet Explorer, with extra additions.
- Tabbed browsing makes it easy to open multiple Web pages all in one window.
- The pop-up blocker is invaluable for stopping annoying ads.
- You can also get an email client, IRC chat program, and a news reader.
- Mozilla is completely free, with no hidden ads or spyware.
- You can use skins to make it look how you want it to look.
Guide Review - Mozilla 1.1
Web browsers are one of the most important software tools available for Web developers. And if you're like most developers, you have several different browsers on your machine that you use for testing. But once you get used to using Mozilla, you might not want to use your other browsers except when you have to. This browser renders pages quickly and doesn't take up as many resources as Internet Explorer. The pop-up blocker is invaluable, and the tabbed browsing makes it easy to find and add links to your site without opening multiple windows. The only problem I had with the tabs was that I couldn't find a keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs. Mozilla supports CSS1 and some of CSS2, plus XHTML, and XML. It is the perfect browser.
