Browsing features of Mozilla Firefox
As far as Internet is concerned; there is one name, which is familiar mostly to net users & i.e. Internet Explorer. In addition, net surfing is concerned, the only well-recognized search engine is Google. Therefore, by using Internet Explorer we can access the internet.
Tri-license agreement in Firefox: The web browser project of the Mozilla Firefox planned & controlled by the Mozilla Corporation. We can access the source code of the Firefox web browser under the rules & regulations of tri-license agreement of the Mozilla.
All the versions of the Firefox & Mozilla software products are developed under tri-license, which are MPL/GPL/LGPL. In this agreement, MPL stands for Mozilla Public License, GPL stands for GNU General Public & LGPL stands for GNU Lesser General Public.
So according to this tri-license agreement, the Mozilla Firefox is free & open source software application. All the versions of the Mozilla project & other software products of Mozilla are supervised according to the Mozilla Manifesto.
If we consider the share, market status of the Mozilla Firefox, up to October 2007, this web browser has 14.85% of market share. Therefore, that makes this web browser as the second most web browser in the world after Internet Explorer.
The main reasons for shifting of net users from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox is its features that are more advanced & user friendly for the net users. The most important thing is that this is an open source software application. So all worldwide developers, software technicians are the member of the Mozilla community. Therefore, these technicians can modify & develop the web browsing functions of Firefox, which will be beneficial for net users.
There is inclusion of suitable web browsing changes in Firefox. These functions are tabbed browsing, spell checker that is done inline, incremental find & live bookmarking. Also integrated download manager & search engine including search engines like Google, Yahoo, A9 and Answer.com are the extensive features of the Mozilla Firefox.
Add-ons in Firefox:The developers community of the Mozilla has designed add-ons which are the unique function of this web browser.There are various types of add-ons like extensions, themes, plugins, dictionaries, search engines are available in this web browser. There are thousands of add-ons available in the Mozilla Firefox.
There are some famous examples of the add-ons like FoxyTunes which is used to maintain the music players, Adblock Plus which is used as a blocker for preventing unfamiliar online advertisements. There is the inclusion of the website diccovery called as StumbleUpon & add-on like DownThemAll! which is used for download functions.
Add-ons like search engines containing Google, Yahoo, A9, Answer.com, and ESPN are used in Firefox web browser for accessing worldwide information. These add-ons are inbuilt in the Mozilla Firefox. By using dictionaries like add-ons, we can access the different types of words of various languages. So that is useful for translation, spelling check. Web Developer is also one type of add-on which is used as web tools.
Cross-platform status: The status of the Mozilla Firefox is cross-platform. So that means it gives assistance to the several versions of the operating systems like Microsoft Windows & its versions, Mac OS X & Linux. The version like 2.0.0.11 is the existing, steady release of the Mozilla Firefox which was released on 30th November 2007.
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