Mozilla Firefox

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Mozilla Firefox
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Image:FFX2winmedia.PNG Mozilla Firefox running on Windows XP, displaying the English Wikipedia main page
Maintainer:	Mozilla Foundation / Mozilla Corporation
Stable release:	2.0 (October 24, 2006) _[+/-]
Preview release:	none (n/a) _[+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Available language(s):	Multilingual (41)
Use:	Web browser
License:	MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website:	www.mozilla.com/firefox

"Firefox" redirects here. For other uses, see Firefox (disambiguation).

Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers.<ref name="volunteerlist">Mozilla contributors list. Mozilla.org. Retrieved on 2006-10-17.</ref> Started as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the Mozilla Foundation's flagship product. Firefox is often abbreviated as FF; officially it is Fx or fx.<ref>Firefox FAQ. mozilla.org.</ref>

Firefox had gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes<ref name="forbesacclaim">Hesseldahl, Arik (September 29 2004). Better Browser Now The Best. Forbes. Retrieved on 2006-10-17.</ref> and the Wall Street Journal,<ref name="wsjacclaim">Mossberg, Walter S. (September 16 2004). How to Protect Yourself From Vandals, Viruses If You Use Windows. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2006-10-17. "I suggest dumping Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, which has a history of security breaches. I recommend instead Mozilla Firefox, which is free at www.mozilla.org. It's not only more secure but also more modern and advanced, with tabbed browsing, which allows multiple pages to be open on one screen, and a better pop-up ad blocker than the belated one Microsoft recently added to IE."</ref> even before its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004. With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after the initial 1.0 release, Firefox became one of the most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among home users.<ref name="nytmostusedossapp">Stross, Randall (December 19 2004). The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating). New York Times. Retrieved on 2006-10-17. "With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too. (Your children in college are already using it.)"</ref> Firefox 2 was released on October 24, 2006 and downloaded over 2 million times within 24 hours.<ref>Over 2 Million People Using Firefox 2 in the First 24 Hours</ref>

As of September 2006, Firefox's usage share is around 12% of overall browser usage (see market adoption below), with its highest usage in Germany (about 39% as of July 2006).<ref>Global usage share Mozilla Firefox has increased according to OneStat.com. OneStat.com (2006-07-09). Retrieved on 2006-10-17.</ref>

[edit] History

For more details on this topic, see History of Mozilla Firefox.

Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. They believed that the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.^{[citation needed]} To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a pared-down browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3 2003, The Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.<ref>mozilla development roadmap. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.</ref>

The Firefox project has gone through many name changes through its history. Originally titled Phoenix, it had to be renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird in order to avoid confusion with the database software. However, continuing pressure from the database server's development community forced another change, and on February 9 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox (or Firefox for short).<ref>Mozilla holds 'fire' in naming fight. CNET News.com.</ref>

The Firefox project went through many versions before 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. Aside from stability and security fixes, the Mozilla Foundation released one major update to Firefox—version 1.5, on November 29, 2005—before the debut of Firefox 2.

On October 24 2006, Mozilla released Firefox 2. This version includes changes to the tabbed browsing environment; enhancements to the extensions manager; enhancements to the GUI<ref>FX2 Visual Update (2006-07-11). Retrieved on 2006-10-21. A page showing the various bits of visual update.</ref> (including a more glossy-looking default theme); improvements to the find, search and software update engines; a greater level of accessibility; session and download restore; and new anti-phishing features.<ref>Firefox2/Features (2006-07-06). Retrieved on 2006-10-21. A table that lists and links the intended features for Firefox 2.</ref> Firefox 1.5 users will not be automatically updated to Firefox 2, because automatic updates are for security and stability releases only.<ref>firefox 2 million. Asa Dotzler's weblog.</ref> Firefox 1.5 users will be notified of the update to Firefox 2 a few weeks after the release of Firefox 2.<ref>Mozilla Firefox 2 Released. MozillaZine.</ref>

[edit] Future development

This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future software.
The content may change dramatically as the software release approaches and more information becomes available.

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According to the roadmap, future Firefox development will include version 3.0. Development on version 3.0, which will be based on Gecko 1.9, occurs simultaneously on the Mozilla trunk. Newer versions of Firefox will use Cairo as the rendering layer instead of GDI+.<ref>Mozilla Cairo Vector Graphics. mozillaZine.. A page describing the future usage of Cairo.</ref>

[edit] Version 3.0

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The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso.<ref>Google Groups: mozilla.dev.planning. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.</ref> The precursory releases are currently codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk builds. "Gran Paradiso", like other Firefox development names, is an actual place. "Gran Paradiso" is the name of a national park in Italy. When Firefox 3 branches, it will adopt the "Gran Paradiso" codename. The release timeframe for Firefox 3 is May 2007.<ref>Firefox 3 schedule (2006-09-23). Retrieved on 2006-11-22.</ref>

The largest change for Firefox 3 will be the implementation of Gecko 1.9, an updated layout engine (more correctly big changes to the reflow code and migration of nsTextFrame to the Thebes infrastructure). Firefox 3 will also include several new features and some that were bumped from Firefox 2, such as the overhauled Places system for storing bookmarks and history in an SQLite backend.<ref>Places (2006-10-16). Retrieved on 2006-10-21.</ref> Due to Microsoft's decision to end support for Windows 98 and Windows Me on July 11 2006, and because Cairo does not support Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4.0, Firefox 3 will not run on those operating systems.<ref>Berger, Adam (2006-06-15). Firefox 3.0 will not support Windows 98 or ME. gadgetell. Retrieved on 2006-10-21.</ref><ref>Gecko 1.9 Roadmap. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.</ref> Unlike previous versions, Firefox 3 on Mac OS X will use native Cocoa widgets.<ref>Mac:Cocoa Widgets. Retrieved on 2006-11-13.</ref>

The development team is also asking that Firefox users submit feature requests that they wish to be included in Firefox 3.<ref>Firefox/Feature Brainstorming (2006-10-20). Retrieved on 2006-10-21.</ref>

[edit] Version 4.0

On October 13 2006, Brendan Eich, Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer, wrote about the plans for Mozilla 2.0, the platform on which Firefox 4 is likely to be based. These changes include improving and removing XPCOM APIs, switching to standard C++ features, just-in-time compilation with JavaScript 2 (known as the Tamarin project), and tool-time and runtime security checks.<ref>Eich, Brendan (2006-10-13). Mozilla 2. Retrieved on 2006-09-16.</ref><ref>Eich, Brendan (2006-11-07). Project Tamarin. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.</ref>

[edit] Features

Main article: Features of Mozilla Firefox

The developers of Firefox aim to produce a browser that "just works" for most casual users. User-created extensions and plugins can be installed to integrate with Firefox giving a wide range of choice for the end-user. The main features included with Firefox are tabbed browsing, incremental find, live bookmarking, a customizable download manager and a built-in Search toolbar. The user can customize their version of Firefox with downloadable extensions, a variety of different themes and skins, and many hidden preferences that are easily accessible to the advanced user.

Mozilla Firefox claims support for many software standards, including but not restricted to: HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSL, SVG, XPath and PNG images with variable transparency. Firefox release builds do not yet pass the Acid2 standards-compliance test. However, there are developmental versions of Firefox that currently pass the Acid2 test, and Firefox 3 is expected to pass Acid2.<ref>Firefox Passes Acid2. TechSpot Weblog.</ref>

Mozilla Firefox is a multi-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, including 98, 98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Server 2003. It also runs on Mac OS X, and the Linux-based operating systems using the X Window System. Although not officially released for certain operating systems, the freely available source code works for many other operating systems, including but not restricted to: FreeBSD <ref name="freshportsfirefox">FreshPorts entry on Firefox. freshports.org.</ref>, OS/2, Solaris, SkyOS, BeOS and more recently, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.<ref name="mozillax86site">Mozilla X86 website</ref>

Firefox also provides an environment in which web developers can use built in tools (from extensions). These include a JavaScript Console, a DOM Inspector, Venkman JavaScript debugger, and an integrated development toolkit called Web Developer <ref name="webdevelopersite">Web Developer Site</ref>.

The fact that Firefox has fewer and less severe publicly known unpatched security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer (see Comparison of web browsers) is often cited as a reason to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox for improved security.<ref name="securityfocus">Time to Dump Internet Explorer. SecurityFocus.</ref><ref name="securitycnet">CNET editors' review for Mozilla Firefox. C|Net Reviews.</ref><ref name="securityslate">Are the Browser Wars Back?. Slate.</ref><ref name="securitymozilla">Switching from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. mozilla.com.</ref> A 2006 Symantec study showed that Firefox had surpassed Internet Explorer in the number of vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities that year through to September, though these were patched more quickly than vulnerabilities found in other browsers.<ref name="morebugs">Firefox Sports More Bugs, But IE Takes 9 Times Longer To Patch, TechWeb.</ref> Symantec later clarified their statement, saying that Firefox still had fewer security vulnerabilities, as counted by security researchers.<ref>Symantec adjusts browser bug count, InfoWorld</ref>

Firefox uses SSL/TLS to protect communications with web servers using strong cryptography. It also supports smartcards for secure login to web servers. It uses a sandbox security model and the developers use a "bug bounty" scheme, for finding fixes for some security and feature additions.

[edit] Performance

Internet Week ran an article in which many readers reported high memory usage in Firefox 1.5.<ref name="memoryleak">Firefox 1.5: Not Ready For Prime Time? InternetWeek.</ref> Mozilla developers said the higher memory use of Firefox 1.5 is sometimes at least partially an effect of the new fast backwards and forwards (FastBack) feature.<ref name="fastback">Bug 319262 - Significant memory leak. Mozilla.org Bugzilla.</ref> Other known causes of memory problems are misbehaving extensions, such as Google Toolbar and Adblock <ref name="problematicextensions">Problematic Extensions. MozillaZine Knowledge Base</ref> or plug-ins, such as older versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader<ref name="acrobatmemoryuse">Acrobat Reader Plug-in information. MozillaZine Knowledge Base</ref>. However, when PC Magazine compared memory usage of Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer, they found that Firefox seemed to use only about as much memory as the other browsers.<ref name="memorycomparison">Which New Browser Is Best: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?. PC Magazine.</ref> Tests performed by PC World and Zimbra indicate that Firefox 2 uses less memory than Internet Explorer 7.<ref>Review: Radically New IE7 or Updated Mozilla Firefox 2--Which Browser is Better?. PC World.</ref><ref>IE 7 vs IE 6. Zimbra.</ref>

Softpedia notes that Firefox takes longer to start up than other browsers<ref>Mozilla Firefox Review. Softpedia. Retrieved on 2006-09-22.</ref> and browser speed tests confirm this to be the case.<ref name="speedcmp">HowtoCreate.co.uk Browser Speed Comparisons</ref> IE also launches slightly faster than Firefox on Microsoft Windows since many of its components are built into Windows and are loaded during system startup.<ref name="speedcmp"> On Microsoft Windows, this can be addressed by using the open-source FFPreloader Utility.<ref>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/</ref>

[edit] Licensing

Firefox is an open-source application, tri-licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The licenses permit anyone to view the source code, as well as modifying and redistributing it (though with trademark restrictions). Netscape and Flock are examples of software based on Firefox code.

In the past, Firefox was licensed solely under the MPL.<ref name="mozrelicensing">Mozilla Foundation MPL Relicensing FAQ [1]</ref> The Free Software Foundation (FSF) criticizes the MPL for being weak copyleft; the license permits, in limited ways, proprietary, derivative works. Code under the MPL also cannot be legally linked with code under the GPL or the LGPL.<ref>Richard Stallman. On the Netscape Public License. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/netscape-npl.html</ref><ref>GNU comments on MPL [2]</ref> To address these concerns, Mozilla tri-licensed Firefox under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL, which permits developers to use whichever license they wish in creating derivative works. The effect of the tri-licensing is that developers can legally link Firefox code with GPL or LGPL code, but still allows them to create proprietary, derivative works (though not both at once). <ref name="mozrelicensing">Mozilla Foundation MPL Relicensing FAQ [3]</ref>

The FSF considers the official Firefox binaries released by Mozilla to not be free software because they include the proprietary crash reporter Talkback, have trademark restrictions on the Firefox name and artwork, and force the user to accept a clickwrap agreement (the latter only applies to the Windows version).<ref>Free Software Directory: Firefox [4]</ref> Google and Mozilla developers are working on Airbag, an open-source replacement for Talkback, that will allow official Firefox builds to be entirely free of proprietary software.<ref>Deploying the Airbag. BSBlog (Mozilla developer Benjamin Smedberg's weblog).</ref>

In September 2006, Mozilla requested Debian not to use the official Firefox name for its own patched version. Mozilla requires that distribution of builds called "Firefox" include the official artwork and that any changes made to the Firefox code required approval by Mozilla. Since the official artwork is trademarked and copyrighted, thus going against the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and since Debian didn't want to go through Mozilla to make changes, Debian decided to fork Firefox into IceWeasel.<ref>Debian bug report log #354622: "[packages 'firefox' and 'thunderbird'] use Mozilla Firefox trademark without permission" [5]</ref>

[edit] Market adoption

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[edit] Usage share

Statistics reference: Usage share of web browsers

Web-surfers have adopted Firefox rapidly, despite the dominance of Internet Explorer in the browser market. Internet Explorer has seen a steady decline of its usage share since Firefox's release. According to several sources (as listed in statistics reference), by July 2006, Firefox had around 12% of global usage share.

Europe, according to a study released by the firm XiTi on 2006-06-16, generally had higher percentages of Firefox use, with an average of 20%.<ref>Firefox surveyPDF</ref>

[edit] Download count

Downloads have continued at a steady rate since Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004. No other Mozilla Foundation product has experienced such growth.<ref name="stablegrowth">Firefox and more: the graphs (part 1). Asa Dotzler's weblog.</ref>

**Downloads of Firefox 1.x and 2.x since November 9 2004**
Date	Number of days	Downloads (millions)
November 10 2004	1	1<ref>1,000,000+ downloads on day 1</ref>
February 16 2005	99	25<ref>firefox 25,000,000</ref>
April 29 2005	171	50<ref>celebrating 50 million firefox downloads</ref>
July 26 2005	259	75<ref>Firefox Exceeds 75 million Downloads</ref>
October 19 2005	344	100<ref>firefox hits one hundred million downloads</ref>
March 3 2006	479	150<ref>150 million and counting!</ref>
July 31 2006	629	200<ref>Firefox 200 Million Downloads - what it means</ref>
November 11 2006	732	250<ref>250000000 downloads!</ref>

These numbers<ref>http://feeds.spreadfirefox.com/downloads/firefox.xml</ref> do not include downloads using software updates or from third-party websites. They do not represent a user count, as one download may be installed on many machines, or one person may download the software multiple times. Mozilla Vice President of Products Christopher Beard estimates that Firefox currently has 70 million to 80 million users as of October 2006.<ref>Final Version of Mozilla Firefox 2 Will Be Released Oct. 24. PC World.</ref>

[edit] Spread Firefox campaigns

Main article: Spread Firefox

The rapid adoption of Firefox apparently accelerated in part because of a series of aggressive marketing campaigns since 2004. For example, Blake Ross and Asa Dotzler organized a series of events dubbed "marketing week".

On September 14 2004, a marketing portal dubbed "Spread Firefox" (SFX) debuted along with the Firefox Preview Release, creating a centralized space for the discussion of various marketing techniques. The portal enhanced the "Get Firefox" button program, giving users "referrer points" as an incentive. The site lists the top 250 referrers. From time to time, the SFX team or SFX members launch marketing events organized at the Spread Firefox website.

[edit] World Firefox Day 2006

The World Firefox Day campaign started on July 15 2006,<ref>"World Firefox Day Launches", Sfx Team's Blog, Spread Firefox, 2006-07-16.</ref> which is the anniversary of the founding of the Mozilla Foundation, and ran until September 15 2006. Participants registered themselves and a friend on the website for nomination to have their names displayed on the Firefox Friends Wall, a digital wall that will be displayed at the headquarters of the Mozilla Foundation. An e-mail is sent to the nominated friend which provides a hyperlink to download Mozilla Firefox. If the friend downloads the program from this link the nomination is accepted. The names also appear on a website. The link to this website can be found by looking in the credits of the current version of Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 2. The Firefox Wall of Friends can also be found at the World Firefox Day website

[edit] Industry adoption

Since the pre-1.0 stages, several well-known websites and web applications, including Gmail, have supported (and in some cases, required) the use of Firefox. Since March 30 2005, the Google search engine has utilized the link prefetching feature of Firefox for faster searching. Google, Inc. also recommends Firefox as the browser for its Blogger.com weblog service.<ref name="blogger">Where can I upgrade my browser? Blogger Help.</ref> On May 18 2005, eBay announced support for Firefox for its eBay Picture Manager.<ref name="ebay">eBay Picture Manager Enhancements. eBay.</ref> In 2006, Microsoft released a Firefox-compatible Windows Genuine Advantage browser plug-in.<ref name="Microsoft-2006">Genuine Microsoft Software (HTML). Windows Genuine Advantage: Frequently Asked Questions. Microsoft Corporation (2006). Retrieved on 2006-11-06.</ref>

Search engine companies including Google, Yahoo! and A9.com now also offer Firefox extensions for accessing their services, in addition to their original Internet Explorer add-ons. Google has released four Extensions for Firefox,<ref>http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/extensions/index.html</ref> further affirming the company's interest in Firefox.

In December 2005, the Inquirer reported that Dell UK would start shipping the Firefox browser pre-installed on their PCs, but neither Dell nor Mozilla have confirmed this.<ref name="dell">Firefox shipping on Dell UK. blakeross.com.</ref>

[edit] Institutional adoption

During the FOSDEM 2005 conference, Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, noted that Firefox has had more success in the consumer market than with institutions.<ref name="firefoxsneaksintotheenterprise">Firefox sneaks into the enterprise. ZDNet UK.</ref> He also theorized that pressure from Microsoft caused institutions who had adopted Firefox to remain silent about it.

I know companies that are deploying Firefox or Thunderbird, but they aren't talking about it as they don't want to see an increase in their [Microsoft] Office licence price.

Some observers, such as Serdar Yegulalp of TechTarget<ref>Serdar Yegulalp. How to switch an enterprise from IE to Firefox. TechTarget. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.</ref> and Jim Rapooza of eWEEK<ref>Jim Rapooza. Mozilla Firefox 1.0. eWEEK. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.</ref> note that Firefox does not provide tools that make institutional deployment easier, such as a client customization kit (which Mozilla has since released<ref>Firefox 1.5 CCK (Client Customization Kit) Wizard. Retrieved on 2006-09-22.</ref>) or Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages. Furthermore, they note that Firefox does not support some technologies that are sometimes used in institutional environments, such as ActiveX and Active Directory.

While institutions may not be actively deploying Firefox in large numbers, more and more are allowing their employees to install Firefox, according to JupiterResearch. They found that in 2006, 44% of companies with more than 200 employees allowed Firefox on their employees' systems, compared with 26% in 2005.<ref>J. Nicholas Hoover. IE7 vs. Firefox 2.0: Why This Browser Battle Matters To Businesses. InformationWeek. Retrieved on 2006-10-17.</ref>

[edit] Other versions, builds, and forks

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[edit] Portable versions

Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition<ref name="firefox_portable">http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable</ref> (also known as Firefox Portable) is a repackaged version of Firefox designed to run from a USB flash drive, iPod, external hard drive, or other portable media. The newest version can be run live from a CD. It arose out of a mozillaZine thread in June 2004. John T. Haller released the first packaged version and has led its further development. It includes a specialized launcher that adjusts extensions and themes to work as it is moved between different computers. There is also a portable version of Firefox available for Macintosh computers called Portable Firefox OS X.<ref name="freesmug">http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/firefox</ref>

Here is a full list of Firefox in portable app form:

Firefox Portable for Microsoft Windows and Wine on Linux/Unix<ref name="firefox_portable"/>
Portable Firefox OS X for Mac OS X<ref name="freesmug"/>
Cross-platform Portable Firefox for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows<ref>http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablefirefox/</ref>
Firefox for U3 smart drives<ref>http://software.u3.com/Product_Details.aspx?ProductId=89</ref>
X-Firefox as part of WinPenPack (in Italian only)<ref>WinPenPack - X-Software collection. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.</ref>
Torpark (Portable Firefox with Tor built in)

[edit] Response from competition

Despite Firefox's apparent gains on Internet Explorer, Microsoft's head of Australian operations, Steve Vamos, stated that he did not see Firefox as a threat and that there was not significant demand for the featureset of Firefox among Microsoft's users. Vamos stated that he himself had never used it.<ref name="firefoxdoesnotthreatenie">Microsoft: Firefox does not threaten IE's market share. ZDNet.</ref> Former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has used Firefox, but he has commented "so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?"<ref name="billgates">The assault on software giant Microsoft. BBC News.</ref>

However, a Microsoft SEC filing on June 30 2005 acknowledged that browsers such as Mozilla are competitive threats to Internet Explorer: "Competitors such as Mozilla offer software that competes with the Internet Explorer Web browsing capabilities of our Windows operating system products."<ref name="firefoxathreat">Firefox a threat. MozillaZine.</ref>

In August 2006, Microsoft made an offer to Mozilla to help integrate Firefox with the forthcoming Windows Vista,<ref>Microsoft reaches out to Firefox developers</ref> which Mozilla accepted.<ref>Microsoft offers helping hand to Firefox</ref> Upon the release of Firefox 2, the Internet Explorer 7 development team shipped a cake to Mozilla as a sign of appreciation.<ref name="ie7cake">From Redmond With Love. fredericiana.</ref>

[edit] Gallery

Firefox 1.5 in Microsoft Windows XP

Firefox 2 in Microsoft Windows XP Media Center

Firefox 2 running under GNOME on Ubuntu

Firefox 2 running in Apple Mac OS X v10.4.8

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] References

Goodger, Ben (2004). Mozilla Firefox Development Charter. Retrieved on 2004-09-22.
Hesseldahl, Arik. "Better Browser Now the Best", Forbes, 2004-09-29.
Markham, Gervase. "Firefox Language Coverage", Hacking for Christ, 2004-11-30.
Mossberg, Walt. "How to Protect Yourself From Vandals, Viruses If You Use Windows", Wall Street Journal, 2004-09-16.
Schmidt, Jürgen. "Chrome-plated holes. Mozilla's security concept is not invincible", c't magazine, 2005-07-13. 14/2005, page 202.
Stross, Randall. "The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)", New York Times, 2004-12-19.
Weber, Tim. "The assault on software giant Microsoft", BBC News, 2005-05-09.

[edit] Further reading

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Granneman, Scott (2005). Don't Click on the Blue E!: Switching to Firefox. O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00939-9.
Hofmann, Chris, Marcia Knous, & John Hedtke (2005). Firefox and Thunderbird Garage. Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0-13-187004-1.
McFarlane, Nigel (2005). Firefox Hacks. O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00928-3.
Reyes, Mel (2005). Hacking Firefox : More Than 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations. Wiley. ISBN 0-7645-9650-0.
Ross, Blake (2006). Firefox for Dummies. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-74899-4.
Yeow, Cheah Chu (2005). Firefox Secrets: A Need-To-Know Guide. O'Reilly. ISBN 0-9752402-4-2.