Mozilla Firefox (originally named Phoenix and then for a moment known as Mozilla Firebird) is a free cross-platform web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers.
Before the release of its version 1.0 on 9 November 2004, Firefox has been getting a very good reception from the media, including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. With more than 5 million downloads in the first 12 days of release, and 6 million to 24 November 2004, Firefox 1.0 was one of the free software, open source (open-source) are the most widely used among home users.
Through Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a web browser that is small, fast, simple, and highly developed (apart from the Mozilla Suite is greater). Since 3 April 2003, Firefox and Thunderbird e-mail client has been the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation developers to replace the Mozilla Suite.
Among the popular features of Firefox is the pop-up blocker is installed in it, and a development mechanism (extension) to add additional functionality. Although these features are already available for some time on other web browsers such as Mozilla Suite and Opera, Firefox is a web browser first to gain acceptance in this magnitude. Firefox targeted to receive around 10% market share from Microsoft Internet Explorer (web browser popular with a large margin (as of 2004) until 2005, which has been called by many as a return to war in a web browser.
Firefox has gained attention as an alternative to Internet Explorer since the Explorer has been criticized for alleged ketidakamanannya parties agree to this assumption says Explorer does not follow Web standards, using ActiveX components are often dangerous, and disadvantages of the installation of spyware and malware-and the lack of features Firefox users considered important.] Microsoft themselves have responded that they did not consider if the issues of security and features Explorer to worry about. [
Firefox can run on various operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. The latest stable version of Firefox now is 14.0.1, which was released on June 15, 2012.
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