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.
THE HISTORY OF MOZILLA FIREFOX