Is firefox a security system for the computer ?
I would like to know if firefox is a security system for my computer?
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by JamesFirefox is a web browser only as it does not have a firewall nor a antivirus client.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/
The security related features Firefox has. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/#advancedsecurity
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No, Firefox is a web browser. If you need security software, you could start with Microsoft Security Essentials, which is available free from Microsoft.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/security-essentials-download
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Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.01
- Google Update
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.9.2 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Coupons, Inc. Coupon Printer Plugin
- Coupons, Inc. Coupon Printer DLL
- VLC media player Web Plugin 2.0.2
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
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No, Firefox is a web browser. If you need security software, you could start with Microsoft Security Essentials, which is available free from Microsoft.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/security-essentials-download
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Firefox is a web browser only as it does not have a firewall nor a antivirus client.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/
The security related features Firefox has. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/#advancedsecurity