Firefox Browser, also known as Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages. In 2017, Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name Quantum to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface. Firefox is available for Windows 7 or Windows 10, macOS, and Linux. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos, and Solaris Unix. Firefox is also available for Android and iOS. However, the iOS version uses the WebKit layout engine instead of Gecko due to platform requirements, as with all other iOS web browsers. An optimized version of Firefox is also available on the Amazon Fire TV, as one of the two main browsers available with Amazon's Silk Browser.Firefox was created in 2002 under the codename "Phoenix" by the Mozilla community members who desired a standalone browser, rather than the Mozilla Application Suite bundle. During its beta phase, Firefox proved to be popular with its testers and was praised for its speed, security, and add-ons compared to Microsoft's then-dominant Internet Explorer 6. Firefox was released on November 9, 2004, and challenged Internet Explorer's dominance with 60 million downloads within nine months. Firefox is the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator, as the Mozilla community was created by Netscape in 1998 before their acquisition by AOL.Firefox usage grew to a peak of 32.21% at the end of 2009, with Firefox 3.5 overtaking Internet Explorer 7, although not all versions of Internet Explorer as a whole. Usage then declined in competition with Google Chrome. As of May 2021, according to StatCounter, Firefox has 7.79% usage share as a "desktop" web browser, making it the fourth-most popular web browser after Google Chrome (67.53%), Safari (9.86%) and Microsoft Edge (7.96%), or arguably even with Edge, while its usage share across all platforms is lower at 3.59% still slightly ahead of Edge by same amount, enough for third place (after Google Chrome with 64.47% and Safari with 18.69%).
You can find the newest version of Firefox at mozilla mirrors:
http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html
It will be official announced by tonight (US Eastern Time)
Here is what you can find in this new release:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is...
Can any Firefox users here the music on this page (It's not an English page, though)? (You just have to open the page, and don't have to click on anything).
Uhmm, so far I've tested this in Opera, and Internet Explorer, and both work fine... But somehow it does not seem to work in Firefox. I...
whoops, I played around with the fonts a bit and forgot what the default settings were so now my webpages look weird. Could someone look what's under 'Tools-Options-Fonts'?
I have been using FireFox for months, and everything works soooo fine until today. The story goes like this:
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I downloaded an extension for an online dictionary. Then, I closed all Firefox windows, and opened Firefox again, so the new extension can be installed. And the...
2 questions.
First, can I program a 5 button mouse such that in firefox I can use the 4th and 5th buttons to switch between tabs?
Second, any recommendations for a good 5 button (non-wireless) mouse?
Thanks!
I am pretty new to Firefox, but I am pretty much hooked. I do have one issue...I can't seem to get the shockwave or flash player plugins to work with it. I try using the plugin finder service, but it just hangs up. I have manually DL'd it and works fine on my IE, but still nothing with Firefox...
Firefox URL Domain Name Buffer Overflow
Rating: Highly Critical
http://secunia.com/advisories/16764/
See if your vulnerable by clicking the the following link (Note: Firefox might crash) :
http://www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html
Depending on your Firefox setup this...
I should probably ask this at the firefox forums, or linux forums, but I know dduardo knows the answer :smile:
I have both gnome and kde installed, but when I have firefox running in kde it looks like crap. So how can I make it look better? Could I change my firefox link to something like...
It probably is my isp actually, some sites have acted very strange lately. Note: I am using firefox 1.0.4. What I am trying to do is press the button/s to close some sections.
These buttons, in this picture:
http://img193.echo.cx/img193/6460/pfprob6er.png
But I am just being...
"Alt" parameter in html viewed in firefox
In html coding there is the "alt" parameter which displays information when the cursor is focussed on a image, hyperlink, etc. Here on physicsforums if you hover over the link for a thread in a forum you would see the contents of the post without...
OK, it's time we have a thread dedicated to this (with apologies to those who use Safari or Opera or whatever). Who prefers Firefox, who prefers IE, and why? Sorry if this is a bit cliched by now, but it keeps popping up and I'd like to get a definitive read on the matter. (yes Monique, I'm...
On a number of ocassions Firefox has failed to refresh a webpage correctly. Sometimes it may refresh some of the page, however, chunks of the older one are still left over.
The other day I was straightening up a MySQL database for someone and we were refreshing the PHP pages hosted by Apache...
I know and love Firefox and it's extensions, the ability to make your own extensions, tabbed browsing, extensive skins, and compadibility, above all internet browsers. Which browser do you prefer?
Bug in Mozilla 1.6 AND in Firefox 1.0?
I've been trying to download lecture notes (.pps files) from this website:
http://www-cs.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/~zhu/GC-Spring2005/CSc80000-2-VisionCourse.html
The ONLY one that I can get with Mozilla Firefox 1.0 OR with Mozilla 1.6 is the "Lecture 5"...
Oh my gosh... I still can't get over how cool firefox is. Even coming from an old mozilla version. I had to use internet explorer on a friends laptop (forgot ma usb drive with firefox on it :mad: ) and UGH!
And the...
Since many of you seem to use firefox, I am curious to see how your personal setup looks and which extension you use.
I guess I will start
My Firefox setup
Theme: Firefox Defualt (this is why I want to see what you guys got :smile: )
Extensions:
Adblock
Tabbrowser Preferences...
Does autoscroll work for you in Firefox 1.0?
My HP laptop has a synaptics touchpad with an extra little autoscroll window next to it. Autoscroll works fine in IE and other applications. In Firefox all it does is put a little autoscroll icon on the screen instead of the cursor, but it doesn't...
Does anyone know how to save them in some files or something? I am planning to format my hard drive, and I have a lot of links I don't want to lose. I need to make backup files of them.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20453
Firefox flies into over drive
Is it a bird... is it a plane..?
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 30 December 2004, 22:09
ASK ANY OF FIREFOX'S avid supporters and they'll tell you it's the fastest browser around, true or not.
Well, the INQ's stumbled...
As so many of you introduce about Firefox0.9 I downloaded and use it now, but can you tell me names of some other browsers you have used or know about?
Thankx in advance,
I don't know if anyone has said this already, but mozilla Firefox .9 is out for windows, so everyone who has v.8 go and upgrade and all of you who use IE go get it at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
This is getting ridiculous. With my last installation of Firefox, which was an upgrade from Firebird, it used to take up a lot of memory and frequently halt. At the time I attributed this to the fact that it was not a new installation, but an upgrade from a previous version.
However, now I've...
Lets just take a moment to marvel at these two fantastic and free mozilla products! :smile:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/