Mozilla Firefox is a web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors under the control of the non profit Mozilla Foundation. Features included with Firefox are tabbed browsing, spell checker, incremental find (via the Find toolbar), Live bookmarking, an integrated download manager, and a search system that includes Google.
Firefox's source code is available under the terms of the Mozilla tri-license (MPL/GPL/LGPL) as free and open source software. This has allowed third party developers to create Add-ons which provide specialist functionality. There are more than 2000 add-ons with the most popular including Forecastfox (weather forecasts), FoxyTunes (MP3 player), AdBlock Plus (block ads), StumbleUpon (website discovery) and DownThemAll! (download functions).
Firefox is officially abbreviated as Fx or fx and popularly abbreviated FF. It is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The current stable release of Firefox is version 2.0.0.8, released on October 18, 2007.
According to Market Share by Net Applications, 14.88% of the world's Web browsers used Firefox in September 2007, with 14.42% using version 1.5 or higher.
Features
Features included with Firefox are tabbed browsing, spell checker, incremental find (via the Find toolbar), Live bookmarking, an integrated download manager, and a search system that includes Google. The developers of Firefox aimed to produce a browser that "just surfs the web" and delivers the "best possible browsing experience to the widest possible set of people."
Users can customize Firefox with extensions and themes. Mozilla maintains an add-on repository at addons.mozilla.org with nearly 2000 add-ons in it as of September 2007.
Firefox provides an environment for web developers in which they can use built-in tools, such as the Error Console or the DOM Inspector, or extensions, such as Firebug.
Mozilla Firefox supports many web standards, including HTML, XML, XHTML, SVG 1.1 (partial), CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSLT, XPath, and PNG images with alpha transparency. Firefox also supports standards proposals created by the WHATWG such as client-side storage and canvas element.
Although Firefox 2 does not pass the Acid2 standards-compliance test, development builds of Firefox 3 do.
Future developments
The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso. The precursory releases are codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk builds. "Gran Paradiso" (trans. "Great Paradise"), like other Firefox development names, is an actual place; in this case the highest mountain group in the Graian Alps. An October 2007 post on the Mozilla Wiki "Release Roadmap" from President of Products Christopher Beard suggests a release in late 2007 to early 2008. A release and development schedule is available on Mozilla's website.
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