© Steve Oualline and Grace Oualline 2018
Steve Oualline and Grace OuallinePractical Free Alternatives to Commercial Softwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3075-6_1

1. Web Browsing with Firefox

Steve Oualline1  and Grace Oualline1
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San Diego, California, USA
 

Web browsing is the most common activity that users do on computers. Unfortunately, the web browser that comes with Windows is limited, insecure, and not private. Fortunately, there is an open source web browser that is available for free, Firefox, which doesn’t have these problems.

In this chapter, we discuss the most useful advanced features of this browser.
  • Tab muting : This is a way of silencing the autoplay videos and ads, as well as anything else you want to silence.

  • Private browsing ...

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