Foundation of Mozilla Firefox:
Abbreviation of firefox is Fx or fx officially. The popular abbreviation is FF which is a cross-platform browser useful to give support to various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Currently Firefox version 2.0.0.8 is released on October 18, 2007.
Features of Mozilla firefox: Features of Firefox are tabbed browsing, spell checker, incremental find through the Find toolbar, live bookmarking, collected download manager, and a search system which contains Google. The target of developers of Firefox is to produce a browser which only surf the web and gives best experience of browsing to the widest possible group of people.
As far as Market Share by Net Applications is concerned, 14.88% of net browsers used Firefox in September 2007, while 14.42% are using version 1.5. Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt started working on the Firefox project. They have a trust on the commercial needs of sponsorship of Netscape and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. after looking at Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they battled and created created a pared-down browser, by which they targeted the position Mozilla Suite. The Mozilla Organization announced to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird On April 3, 2003.
There are various changes in the name of The Firefox project. Phoenix is the title name of firefox but it was renamed due to debate on trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The new name, Firebird emerged quick response from the free database software project like Firebird. So the statement of the Mozilla Foundation is that the browser should always bear Mozilla Firebird name to avoid confusion with the database software. The effect of pressure from the database server's development community caused another change. Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox on February 9, 2004.
There are many versions of firefox project. On November 9, 2004. Versions 1.0 was released. For features like stability and security fixes, on November 29, 2005 there is a release of first major update to Firefox version 1.5 by the Mozilla Foundation., Mozilla released Firefox 2 on October 24, 2006 that includes features like updating the tabbed browsing, the extensions manager like GUI, and the find, search and software update engines; new features, like inline spell checking, anti-phishing was executed by Google which is an extension and added into the program.
FireFox can customize with extensions and themes. Up to September 2007 Mozilla maintains nearly 2000 add-ons.
There is nice environment in FireFox for web developers in which they can use built-in tools like the Error Console or the DOM Inspector, or extensions, such as Firebug.
It is free and open source software, and it is licenced under three categories like the Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). [3] the permission of this three licence is required for anyone to view,change the source code;various local applications have been built on it. e.g code from Mozilla Firefox is used by . Netscape, Flock and Songbird.
Approximately 2000 and more add-ons like Forecastfox which is a weather forecast, FoxyTunes as a MP3 player, AdBlock Plus for blocking ads, StumbleUpon for website discovery) and DownThemAll for downloading functions are available on Mozilla FireFox.
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