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Sometime ago many of us, Web developers, have switched from using Firefox to Google Chrome because of important features like speed.

Now that Firefox 4 was launched it addressed some of the issues we had with past versions, thus making it better at least for Web development.

This article explains some of the top reasons why Firefox is still a better browser than Google Chrome to aid in our Web development work.

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Most web developers hate IE because it has very poor standards support. We can get an application or web-page up and running in firefox/opera/safari/chrome/every other browser, then spend 2x more time getting it to work in Internet Explorer.

For the end-user, it has alot of other issues. It is severely bloated, takes forever to download, requires a restart on installation, and is tied into the windows update utility.

It also has alot of security bugs, which we won’t go into, but this quote sums it up

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THE US GOVERNMENT has sent out a warning out to internet users through its Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), pleading users to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Following a malware attack which targeted a known flaw in IE, like so many other attacks, the US-CERT recommended using alternative browsers thanks to their increased security.

Here are some more to read:

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Our team is working towards supporting multi-currency with WPSC. This famous plug-in has many features but the current version lacks smooth support for handling different currencies. The support requires showing different currencies both in the catalog as well as cart. The latest rates are fetched through a web service.