Mozilla
Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft, OS X, and Linux, coordinated
by Mozilla
Corporationand Mozilla Foundation.
Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current
and anticipated web standards.
As
of October 2012, Firefox has approximately from 20% to 24% of worldwide usage
share of web browsers, making it the second or third most widely
used web browser, according to different sources. According to Mozilla, Firefox
counts with over 450 milllion users around the world. The browser has had
particular success in Indonesia, Germany,
and Poland,
where it is the most popular browser with 65%, 47% and 47% of
the market share, respectively.
History
The Firefox project began
as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-drivenfeature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla
browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software
bloat, they created a stand-alone 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.
The Firefox project has
undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed
because of trademark problems 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 to avoid
confusion with the database software. After further pressure from the database
server's development community, on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird
became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as
simply Firefox. Mozilla prefers that Firefox be abbreviated
as Fx or fx, though it is often abbreviated as FF. The
Firefox project went through many versions before version 1.0 was released on
November 9, 2004.
On October 5, 2012,
Mozilla released the Metro interface
version of Firefox, included in the Nightly 18 build, to be used in Windows 8. On October 9, Mozilla released Firefox 16 only
to have it removed from its website a day later because of a serious security
issue. Mozilla recommended users downgrade to Firefox 15.0.1 while they worked
to fix the issue. The vulnerability was fixed the following day (October
11) with the release of Firefox 16.0.1
Features
of Firefox 18.03
Features include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, smart bookmarks,
a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing Fixed bug from the
prvious version.
SCREENSHOTS


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