Up to October 2007, Firefox web browser has 14.85% market share in the web browsing industry & so that makes Firefox web browser as the second most famous web browser in the globe.
There are various advantages of Firefox only because of its features. These features are browser for tabbing, spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, and an integrated download manager.Firefox also contain search engine like Google.
Also there is a third party developer network which is used to create add-ons & its give special functions. There are total more than thousands of add-ons in the Firefox web browser. there are some famous add-ons like FoxyTunes which is used to control music players,Adblock Plus which is used as a blocker,StumbleUpon which is a website discovery ,download functions & Web Developers which is used as a web accessories.
There is a support from Firefox web browser for several versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux only because of the cross-platform status of the Firefox. On 1 November, 2007, there is a release of existing long-standing release of Firefox is version 2.0.0.9.
History of the Mozilla Firefox: Firefox project is one of the practical stages of Mozilla Firefox on which technical experts like Dave Hyatt & Blake Ross did their work. They had a trust on the business needs of the sponsorship of the Netscape. Also feature creep which is driven by the developers had a compromise on the utility of the Mozilla browser. For fighting with what they have seen as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they formed a pared-down browser, with which they proposed to substitute the Mozilla Suite.
There was a statement in the public from Mozilla Organization that on April3, 2003, they were going to change their plane & so they are now going to concentrate from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox & Thunderbird.
There are various types of change in the name for Firefox web browser. At the first time, it was named as the Phoenix .but this title was renamed only because of the title dispute between the communities of Mozilla on the trademark issues. That dispute was with Phoenix Technologies. so the new name for the Phoenix was Firebird which aggravated an extreme reaction from the Firebird free database software project. So there was a reaction from the Mozilla Foundation that the new name of the project will be Mozilla Firebird which is renamed to keep away the debate with the database software.
Also there was another change in the name only because of the pressure from the development community of the database server. This pressure forced the change in name as Mozilla Firefox on February 9, 2004.also there was a short form of it & i.e.Firefox.
On November 9, 2004 ,the Firefox had gone through many versions previous to 1.0 was released Besides firmness and protection set up , on November 29, 2005 the Mozilla Foundation announced in public its initial key update to Firefox version 1.5. Mozilla Firefox 2 released.
On October 24, 2006, This version contains updates to the tabbed browsing environment, the extensions manager, the GUI that is the graphic user interface and the find, search and software update engines; a initial session bring back feature like inline spell checking; and an anti-phishing feature which was established by Google as an extension and after that it is fused into the program by its own.
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What is Mozilla Firefox ?
Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. Beginning as a fork of the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox has since become the foundation's main development focus (along with the Thunderbird mail and news client), replacing the Mozilla Suite as the foundation's official main software release.
Before the 1.0 release, Mozilla Fire fox had already gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after the initial 1.0 release, Mozilla Firefox became one of the most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among home users. On October 19, 2005, Mozilla Firefox had its 100 millionth download, less than 1 year (just 344 days) after the release of version 1.0. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005, with more than 2 million downloads within the first 36 hours. Now Fire Fox version 2.0 is relaeased.
Download Firefox, which includes an integrated pop up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other browsers have some of these features, Fire fox became the first such browser to include them all and achieve wide adoption.
Mozilla Firefox has attracted attention as an alternative to other browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari, which are included as standard browsers with versions of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X respectively. This is the main stumbling block for competing browsers as many novice users are still unaware of alternatives.
The development of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is now complete. All Mozilla Firefox branding, including icons, was removed to discourage end-users from downloading it. The release timeframe for Firefox 3.0 is first quarter 2007.