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
Pwn2Own $140,000 in prize money. Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 was successfully exploited by Sebastian Apelt and Andreas Schmidt for a prize of $100,000. Mozilla Firefox was exploited by Jüri Aedla, Mariusz Młyński, and George Hotz each independently, winning $50,000 each. An anonymous participant exploited Google Chrome; however, upon review contest judges declared this a partial win due to one portion of the presentation’s collision with a vulnerability exploited earlier in the week in the Pwnium competition. In 2015, every single prize available was claimed. In 2016, Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari were all hacked. Firefox did not even participate