Mozilla Firefox

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Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox running on Ubuntu, showing the English Wikipedia main page
Developer: Mozilla Foundation / Mozilla Corporation
Latest release: 2.0.0.1 / December 19 2006
Preview release: 3.0a1 / December 8 2006
OS: Cross-platform
Available language(s): Multilingual (41)
Use: Web browser
License: Mozilla EULA
Website: www.mozilla.com/firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free open source web browser for the computer, which uses the Gecko rendering engine. It is made by the Mozilla Foundation. It works on many operating systems. The makers tried to make it very secure.

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[edit] Features

[edit] Add-ons

[edit] Extensions

Extensions allow a user to change how Firefox does something or add new features to it. They are created by other users. Because extensions are able to access all parts of the computer that Firefox can, extensions that can damage a computer could be made.

[edit] Themes

Firefox supports themes/skinning - changing the way the browser looks to the user. Some themes that can make Firefox look like other browsers, like Internet Explorer and Netscape.

[edit] Tabs

Tabbed browsing is a feature used in the browser many webpages can be opened in one window.

[edit] Searching

There is a search box in Firefox that can be seen in the top right corner of the window. When someone using Mozilla Firefox types something in the search box and presses enter, the browser will search the Internet using a search engine like Google or Yahoo!. There are "search suggestions" in Firefox 2: when words are typed in the search box, suggested words will appear, for example, if "wiki" is typed, the browser will suggest "Wikipedia", if it can use "search suggestions" with the selected search engine.

[edit] Spell checking

Firefox 2 can use spell checking, if a word is typed badly into a text box, like the one where someone changes a Wikipedia page, the program will underline the word with the wrong spelling with a red line. When the right mouse button over the underlined word is clicked, Mozilla Firefox will list words which use the proper spelling. For example: the badly spelt word "chekc" will have "check" as a suggestion.

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