You might think a browser is a browser. Perhaps you don’t think about your web browser at all—by default you simply use whatever came with the operating system or the browser someone set up for you. If you’re like 70 percent of people, in the US at least, you downloaded Google Chrome and never looked back.
However, it’s not smart to put all your digital eggs in one corporate ecosystem’s basket. There’s a worthy alternative out there: Mozilla Firefox Quantum. It picked up the Quantum moniker in November 2017 with the release of version 57.0, as part of a “comeback” to fight Chrome. Mozilla’s browser is a PCMag Editors’ Choice and has been for some time.
Firefox is fast, secure, customizable, private, and attractive. Plus, it’s chock full of features you probably don’t know anything about, even if you are one of the 25 percent of US web-users (as of 2018) who were smart enough to download it and put it to regular use.
So, let’s dive in and look at all the extra functionality you can squeeze out of Firefox without even installing an extension. After that, you’ll wonder why you ever bothered with another browser.
