Mozilla Firefox and the Internet- a symbiotic relationship which benefits all!!!
Mozilla Firefox is probably the only web browsing software application in the world that can be hacked legally. What is more surprising is the fact that Mozilla Firefox is the only web browsing software application in the world that encourages all its users to go ahead and hack the web browsing software application to their heart’s content. When other web browsing software applications consider the alteration of this source code as hacking of the software application, Mozilla Firefox considers the alteration of the source code as an improvement of the web browser.
It is this basic difference in the attitude between other web browsing software application and Mozilla Firefox that Mozilla Firefox is reverently referred to as the most user friendly web browsing software application in the world while other web browsing software applications are suffered and criticized for their lack of user friendliness.
Mozilla Firefox does not stop at merely encouraging the users to hack the web browsing software application and alter it and customize it to suit their individual requirements. Mozilla Firefox encourages the user to publish the findings of their changes to the web browser on the internet. In short, Mozilla Firefox requests each and every user to make as many changes as he or she desires and requires and further requests the user to inform all other users of the changes made and the effects of the changes made to ensure that other users of the web browsing software application gain from the efforts of a single individual. Mozilla Firefox and all the users interact with each other through a gigantic online network of web discussion forums, web sites and chat rooms, popularly referred to as the Firefox community.
Hacking Mozilla Firefox, changing the source code and publishing the results of the same has become such a big deal that there are many users of Mozilla Firefox who offer the setup file of their customized version of Mozilla Firefox for download. Such updated and upgraded versions of Mozilla Firefox can be found on the internet on a daily basis. Of course, it goes without saying that such versions are not suitable for use by the masses. The changes made by a web developer to enable him or her to search the internet better may not offer a lot of advantage to an average user.
However, innovation and creativity always has its side effects. It can be safely said that each and every user of Mozilla Firefox is aware that the changes and innovation made in the source code of Mozilla Firefox can backfire and a potentially unstable version can be created. However, in the quest to create a web browser software application that offers more features and more facilities, in the quest to create a better web browser and a better web, the users of Mozilla Firefox certainly are ready to take the risk. It would not be incorrect to say that Mozilla Firefox has been determining the course in which the internet should grow. People who wrote blogs or those who followed blogs found Mozilla Firefox to be very useful when it offered the in built ‘live bookmark’ feature. What this ‘live bookmark’ feature did was that it encouraged more users to write their own blogs or encourage them to follow blogs. The end result was that the phenomenon of blogging on the internet became a rage. Mozilla Firefox had a very important role to play in that.
One can clearly see that Mozilla Firefox is no longer just a web browsing software application but is an integral part of the internet and develops the net and becomes developed from the internet. The establishment of a symbiotic relationship between the web and the Firefox web browser is something that all web browsing software applications should have tried to achieve. However, it is a fact that only Mozilla Firefox has managed to succeed.
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