# Tell The Newbie all about FireFox!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-the-newbie-all-about-firefox/351216>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 4, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-the-newbie-all-about-firefox/351216 "2006-04-04T07:36:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-the-newbie-all-about-firefox/351216/21 "2006-04-07T06:40:00Z")

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Besides several of the already mentioned extensions (Thanks for the info on Spellbound **Derleth**.) I like these.

[Bookmark Duplicate Detector](http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/) - Cleaned out extra bookmarks and warns me everytime I am about to bookmark something I already have listed.

[Bookmarks Synchronizer 3](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1989/) - Copy your bookmarks to a safe spot on the web. Download them to any computer you are using Firefox on. I use it to keep my laptop and desktop matched up.

[BugMeNot](http://roachfiend.com/) - A way to avoid registering on all the websites that want your name and email.

[IE View](http://ieview.mozdev.org/) - For those websites that refuse to create standards compliant pages. Click the button and IE opens up to that page.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-the-newbie-all-about-firefox/351216/22 "2006-04-07T07:21:41Z")

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**mrrealtime** : I think the best reason to switch is security, myself. (See above for my cites, or wait until MSIE has its next OMGWTFBBQ security breach.) Everything else, including extensions, is gravy.

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-the-newbie-all-about-firefox/351216/23 "2006-04-07T10:14:23Z")

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> [@mrrealtime](#):
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> From a performance perspective, superior to IE and safari on the mac, inferior to IE on the PC. If you tend to enjoy tweaking and playing with your favorites, and really getting into the geeky stuff with browsers, then Firefox is open and easier to customize. If you just want to get on the web and dont give a \*\* what logo is in the top corner of your browser, IE is a bit faster and a bit more integrated with windows UI so theres less of a learning curve.

Got a question about this. Is FF a more efficient browser than IE due to tabbed browsing? I can see with a 1-to-1 relationship IE giving better performance due to it’s integration, but considering I need to typically have 3 or 4 windows open at a time (versus 3 or 4 tabs in one FF browser) is there an improvement in wasted resources? Or is the tabs vs. windows differential purely superficial?

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