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What Are Some Extensions Known To Slowdown Firefox Browser?

What are some extensions known to slowdown firefox browser?
Which one can make firefox the more slower?
Can you tell me some of them?

10 Common Filename Extensions and File Types – What are They?

The top ten common filename extensions are extensions of files that are most commonly used by computer users. Here are the top ten (not necessarily in order) most common filename extensions:

1. .doc – this is the file extension for a file created by Microsoft Word, the most popular word processing software. The most recent version of Microsoft Word is OOXML-based and has the filename extension of .docx

2. .jpg – this is the filename extension for the compressed graphic format standardized by the JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group). Most digital images we see in the internet and in computers are in the JPEG format and has the filename extension of .jpg. This file can be viewed in most image viewing and editing software.

3. .exe – this is the extension for Windows or DOS executable programs. If a file has this extension, it is a program and runs when opened. Self-extracting archives also have this extension.

4. .htm or .html – the extension for HTML web page. HTML stands for “Hyper-Text Markup Language”, the language used in writing web pages. This very page you are looking at now is a web page with a filename extension of .htm.

5. .mp3 – the filename extension for compressed audio format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. This audio format is very popular nowadays because its size is many times smaller than that of the Wave or AIF file. This makes it easy for people to download music from the internet. The downside of .mp3 is that the quality of sound is not as good as that of the Wave or AIF file.

6. .mpg – this is a video format standardized by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). This file can be played using Windows Media Player, Winamp, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Apple QuickTime Player, or VLC Media Player.

7. .zip – this is the extension for any file that is compressed using the ZIP compression, a kind of compression which allows every file in the archive to be compressed separately. Programs that can open .zip files include WinZip, PKZip, and the popular WinRar.

8. .pdf – this is the file extension for the document created by Adobe Acrobat or other PDF producing programs. PDF stands for “Portable Document Format” and may contain images, texts, forms, outlines, and links. PDF files are usually created from another file, like a web page or a Word document.

9. .xls – this is the filename extension for Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet created with Microsoft Excel, the most popular spreadsheet program.

10. .msi – this is the extension File extensions used for misc files, files that contain information about a particular installer. This is used for Windows updates and other software installers.

More Browser Extensions Coming Your Way

A few years ago, everyone thought that the browser war was over – Microsoft had won the war. It was easy to make such an assumption because, back then, Internet Explorer had a 90% market share. The other popular browser in those days was Netscape, and it had a measly 10% market share. This is mostly due to Microsoft distributing its browser with its operating systems, Microsoft Windows, which made it hard for other browsers to come into the same space and compete.

But being the market leader with little competition is not an ideal situation, even for Microsoft. Over time, in the hope of keeping its technology propriety, the giant company has failed to respond to user feedback promptly. That threw the game wide open, and Firefox soon came into the picture. What is the difference between Firefox and Internet Explorer then?

The key difference between the two browsers is that Firefox allows developers to develop third party plugins. For example, if you are an internet marketer, you can develop plugins for Firefox that you know other marketers will use. For the end user, this means that you can install any plugin that you find useful. If you need an RSS reader, you can install a plugin for that. If you need a dictionary, you can download a plugin for that as well. This is an open platform concept that the end users surely welcome. Today, there are literally hundreds of plugins available for download all over the Internet. So which browser do you think users will choose this time round?

You are right, more and more people are choosing Firefox over Internet Explorer. They can’t seem to live without the extensions! In just a few short years, Firefox has narrowed the gap. Many webmasters are reporting that they see as much as 40% of their visitors using the Firefox browser. Internet Explorer is still the market leader, but it is losing ground very quickly.

As if the race wasn’t exciting enough, Google, the world’s number one search engine, has decided to join in the race! Its Chrome web browser was first released to the public in September 2008. Since its release, the browser has only managed to capture about 2% of market share, but this doesn’t seem to bother the giant search company. That’s because they have major plans for their browser.

Google Chrome is a lightweight browser. The engineers who developed this browser said that this is deliberate. They have adopted the very same concept that Firefox has used to catch up with Internet Explorer. Therefore, end users can expect third party extensions to be developed for Google Chrome as well. As this is a very new browser, there will be limited extensions available at first, but Google looks set to be providing more and more support for developers to start working on extensions based on the Google Chrome platform.

At the end of the day, it will all come down to coding. In other words, whoever has a platform that is more user friendly for developers, will win the browser war. Of course, having a lean, high performance, easy-to-use browser will also certainly help. What do you think?