Mozilla Firefox
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| Mozilla Firefox | |
 Mozilla Firefox running on Ubuntu, showing the English Wikipedia main page |
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| Developer: | Mozilla Foundation / Mozilla Corporation |
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| 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.
[edit] Tabs
Tabbed browsing is a feature used in the browser so you can have many web pages opened in one window.
[edit] Searching
There is a search box in Firefox, you can see it in the top right corner of the window. If you type something into it and press enter, the browser will search the Internet using a search engine like Google or Yahoo!. There are "search suggestions" in Firefox 2: when you start typing something into the search box, suggested words will appear, for example you type "wiki" and 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 you type a word badly into a text box, like the one where you change a Wikipedia page, the program will underline it with a red line, and if you click the right mouse button on that word, it will list words which use proper grammar. For example: You type "chekc" and it will list "check".
