MOOX: Firefox Builds

If you're still using old, tired, insecure Internet Explorer, it's time you switched over to the darker side. While Mozilla Firefox is nothing new, it's a movement that is rapidly gaining on the market share of the ubiquitous IE. Firefox is one of the first serious competitors to the staus quo in web browsers. Firefox is open source which is a major plus - when exploits and vulnerabilities are found they are fixed exponentially faster then any response Microsoft would release. Firefox is supported by a wide range of developers constantly changing and optimizing the code, leading some third party developers to offer optimized accelerated builds.

While the standard Firefox is well and good, for those more adventurous there are customized tweaked builds. The most popular distributor is MOOX - who offers performance enhanced versions of other Mozilla products like the Outlook killer, Thunderbird. The best part about the Firefox builds are the various releases, each corresponding to CPU architecture.

There are four tweaked versions of the current stable trunk (nightly builds) and the current official point releases. The four versions of each release are specifically tailored for hardware. The first release, M0 is a performance enchanced version of Firefox requiring no special hardware - meaning it can run on any computer. The second release, M1, is optimized for CPU's supporting MMX technology - old, but still relevant. The M2 build is optimized for processors that support SSE technology like the Athlon XP and Intel Pentium 3 lines. The final build, the M3, is designed to support the latest hardware and technology - think Pentium 4 and AMD FX.

Give these builds a try, they will outperform Internet Explorer without a doubt. If you are feeling uneasy about downloading tweaked and technically unsupported software then give the standard Mozilla release a try. The extensions and themes should keep you pretty happy for awhile, but it's the tabbed windows that will change the way you think about browsing the internet.

Make the switch today.