Features of Firefox Features of Firefox Here are some of the features that distinguish Mozilla Firefox from other web browsers, such as Internet Explorer. To avoid interface bloat and ship a relatively smaller core customizable to meet individual users' needs, and allow for corporate or institutional extensions to meet their varying policies, Firefox relies on a robust extension system to allow users to modify the browser according to their requirements instead of providing all features in the standard distribution. While Opera and Google Chrome do the same, extensions for these are fewer in number as of late 2013. Internet Explorer also has an
Internet Explorer 9 Chrome and Internet Explorer." The release candidate was also "perfectly" compatible with far more sites than the beta, but there are still issues with some sites because their developers are not yet testing with the new browser. The RC scores 4 out of 5 ("very good") for now. On its first day of commercial availability, Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded over 2.35 million times. Blogging his March 2011 performance tests for ZDNet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes concluded that Chrome 10, Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit) Final Release, Opera 11.01 and Firefox 4's Release candidate were "pretty evenly matched... Microsoft has worked hard on