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The perfect browser
A well-engineered browser including the right additional features is the base for fast and secure usage of the World Wide Web. The following article describes how to get this essential tool. This project shall be based on Mozilla Firefox version 3. This browser features fast loading of web pages, an outstanding security and it displays website according to international standards of the W3C. No browser is naturally perfect, so the following add-ons are recommended to improve your browser installation. All add-ons can be downloaded from the website : : http://addons.mozilla.org : : Adblock Plus This add-on filters (flash) banners reliably and provides an ad-free display of any website you are visiting. Especially small band users will notice the quick loading of web pages. Personas for Firefox This add-on is useful for everybody who wants to personalize Firefox discreetly. The applications standard buttons stay untouched however it is possible to apply some nice background images to your toolbar. Innately Personas for Firefox comes with dozens of themes. IE Tab The time comes when even Firefox will display a website incorrectly. Especially websites of Microsoft are affected. In that case this add-on is very helpful. In the bottom right corner it provides a button to switch between the Firefox and the Internet Explorer engine. That means the current page can be displayed with the Internet Explorer engine but still runs in the Firefox window so that important features like “tabbed browsing” do not get lost. Switching back to the Firefox engine is possible at any time. You can even create rules to display a website by a predefined engine. FoxyProxy Who knows this situation? You are traveling between your work place your home and any other place and every time you have to change you connection or proxy settings. This add-on let’s you create presets for special connection settings or proxy configurations. Later you can easily switch between them without editing connection details. Even the TOR network is supported by this small utility. In combination with the mentioned add-ons Firefox represents a tool, that can truly be named “The perfect browser”.