(Originally reviewed by matty2 at reviewcentre.com)

Good Points

Free!
Nice browser layout
Easy to use browser layout
LITTLE search box at the top
Tabbed browsing
Customisable (sic)
Bookmark toolbar

Bad Points

Browser will collapse if you tweak a few settings
Hard to access history & favourites.

General Comments

First of all, I’m am glad to say that this browser is faster, more reliable, more customisable, and safer than the rest of them. Firefox is also free for download, which automatically boosts value for money up to 10/10.

Tabbed browsing is in place of windowed browsing (loads of windows open). Tabbed browsing was invented so you only have one window and all of the tabs are easy to get to without the hassle of the system memory packing up. Now, let me get this straight: Firefox didn’t invent tabbed browsing. Opera didn’t either. It was a browser called Netcaptor. Anyway, tabbed browsing is a fine feature in web browsing.

Another feature of Firefox is the bookmark toolbar. It allows you to click on a link already in the browser layout, instead of having to go into the favourites folder. It saves you time! You can still save favourites in the favourites folder, though.

Firefox is almost completely customisable. You can change the toolbar pictures, move them around, add or remove them… etc. You can also download different skins for it.

The amount of plug-ins (add-ons) available for Firefox is uncountable. The range from ForcastFox (Weather) to FasterFox (it should make Firefox faster) to Map+ (A map, obviously).

Also, you have the search bar at the top. This one isn’t one that will decapitate your view of the web page. All is does is sit there nicely in the top-right corner chopping off a little bit of the address bar. It lets you search through many search engines like Google, Yahoo, and others like Amazon, Ebay, and Answers.

Unfortunately, everything has it’s downsides. The problem with Firefox is that if you dive into the ‘Tools’ bar, you may change some settings that could obliterate the usage of Firefox. In other words: “A teensy bit of fiddling and your driving down diarrhea drive. That is not good.”

You also may have a bit of difficulty accessing the history and favourites (bookmarks) unless you get them from the top toolbar or put the icons on the browser through the customise window.

Overall, Firefox is, in my opinion, much better than Internet Explorer 7 and is great as it is free.

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