Changelog for version 3.7
More… MoreMozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 22.51% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of July 2009, making it the second-most popular browser worldwide, after Internet Explorer.
In 5 months, Firefox has gathered steam and now owns more than 25% of usage share of web browsers closing the gap between it and IE.
To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. Functions can be added through add-ons created by third-party developers, the most popular of which include Adblock Plus, Video DownloadHelper, NoScript, Personas, FlashGot, and Greasemonkey, along with many others.
Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows (version 3.5 supports Windows Vista and XP; although not officially supported, Firefox is compatible with Windows 7 RTM), Mac OS X (10.4 or later officially supported), most Linux distributions, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release branch is version 3.5, first released on June 30th, 2009. Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license of GPL/LGPL/MPL.
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| Website: | mozilla.com/firefox |
| Developer: | Mozilla |
| License: | Open source |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
Long live Firefox!
I can't find anything wrong with it. Everything is of perfection.
Great web browser!
I love it. I can customize & feel safer using it over other browsers. I just wish that it wouldn't crash when I load up certain media in a background tab.
It's relatively the best web browser out there, especially if you use tomes of add-ons written for it. The downside is it's lust for your computer resources. With a few tabs containing some flash movies and after a few hours of browsing it ends up consuming several hundred megabytes of your ram and over 50% of cpu! They just like to add more features in new version and never get to solve this essential problem.
@whizzed: Tabbed browsing was done long before Firefox.
viva firefox
Apart from the fact it tends to crash a lot...I find this a superior and popular browser...when it crashes it will restore your previous tabs etc...this is not a 100 percent foolproof but almost...I put the crashing down to the fact that one has too many extensions...I notice Microsoft have copied Firefox's tab feature...I try not to use Microsoft unless forced to for updates...the spin-off of F/F called the Wyzo browser uses F/F extensions and is not as fast as some say it is..all up I rate Firefox as number one in my estimation..A lot of credit is due to the devoted people who take a lot of time writing up new extensions..in my opinion a small fee should be mandatory for these people even if F/F is open source.
My favorite browser of all! The only problem is that Firefox new releases normally don't work well in the beginning, and they have many annoying bugs. So I'm always one version behind!
I tried most of the popular browsers - and I always come back to this one. Unbeatable.