Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla Firefox (originally known as Phoenix and briefly as Mozilla Firebird ) is a free software, Cross-platform, graphical user interface web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers . Before its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004, Firefox had already gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal . With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after its release, Firefox became one of the most used free software and open source application softwares, especially among home computer users . On October 19, 2005, Firefox had its 100 millionth download, just 344 days after the release of version 1.0.
With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a lightweight, fast, intuitive, and highly extensible standalone browser forked from the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox has become the foundation s main development focus (along with its Mozilla Thunderbird email client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release.
Firefox includes an integrated pop-up ad blocker, tabbed document interface, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox became the first such browser to achieve wide adoption.
Firefox has attracted attention as an alternative to other browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. As of 2005, estimates of Firefox s usage share is around 7.6% of overall browser usage (see #Market_adoption section), Firefox has slightly reduced Internet Explorer s dominant usage share.
=History=
Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. They believed that the commercial requirements of Netscape Communications Corporation s sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite s software bloat, they created a pared-down browser (then known as Phoenix , today known as Firefox ), with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. Ben Goodger currently works as the lead developer of Firefox.
Mozilla Firefox retains the Cross-platform nature of the original Mozilla browser by using the XUL user interface markup language. Through Firefox s support of XUL, users may extend their browser s capabilities by applying skin (computing)s and extension (Mozilla)s. Initially, these add-ons raised security concerns, so with the release of Firefox 0.9, the Mozilla Foundation opened Mozilla Update, a website containing themes and extensions approved as not harmful.
The Mozilla Foundation had intended to make the Mozilla Suite obsolete and to replace it with Firefox. On March 10, 2005, the Foundation announced that official releases of Mozilla would cease with the 1.7.x series. The Foundation continues to maintain the 1.7.x branch because of its continued use by many corporate users, and because makers of other Software still often bundle the product. The Mozilla community (as opposed to the Foundation) will release the next version. These community releases will be called SeaMonkey, and will start out at version 1.0 to avoid any possible confusion for organizations or people still wanting to use the original Mozilla Suite. The Mozilla Foundation will continue giving support (such as Concurrent Versions System hosting) for the Mozilla community developers.
==Naming==
The project which became Firefox started as an experimental branch of the Mozilla Suite called m/b (or mozilla/browser ). When sufficiently developed, binaries for public testing appeared in September 2002 under the name Phoenix .
The Phoenix name survived until April 14, 2003, when it changed due to trademark issues with the BIOS manufacturer, Phoenix Technologies (who produce a BIOS-based browser called Phoenix FirstWare Connect). The new name, Firebird , provoked mixed reactions, particularly since the free software database software Firebird (database server) uses the same name. In late April, following an apparent name change to Firebird browser for a few hours, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird in order to avoid confusion with the Firebird (database server). However, continuing pressure from the Free/Libre/Open-Source Software community forced another change, and on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox (or Firefox for short).
The Mozilla Foundation chose the name Firefox (disambiguation) for its similarity to Firebird , but also for its uniqueness in the computer industry. To avoid any potential further name changes, the Mozilla Foundation began the process of registering Firefox as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in December 2003 . As Firefox already existed as a registered trademark in the United Kingdom, the Mozilla Foundation licensed the name from the trademark s owner.
==Branding and visual identity==
The adoption of a new mascot marks one of Firefox s most visible enhancements from its previous versions. Some people have noted that free software frequently suffers from poor icon and user interface design and from a lack of a strong visual identity. Such opinion held that the early releases of Firefox sported reasonable visual designs, but did not regard them as of a standard equivalent to many professionally released software packages. The release of Firefox 0.8 in February 2004 saw the introduction of new branding efforts, including new icons. [http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/portfolio/mozilla-logos Jon Hicks] designed the icon for Firefox 0.8 and up.
The logo depicts a stylized fox, since the Red Panda (which is what the term Firefox was originally referring to ) didn t conjure up the right imagery for Hicks . The specific logo won selection because it makes an impression, while still not shouting with overdone artwork.
The Firefox icon functions as a trademark used to designate the official Mozilla build of the Firefox software. Although Firefox uses open source core software, free licensing does not extend to the artwork. For this reason, software distributors who distribute patched or modified versions of Firefox may not use the icon.
==Release history==
Firefox has developed considerably since its first release as Phoenix on September 23, 2002. Pre-1.0 releases suffered many issues with extensions, as the code for handling them changed from version to version. Several minor releases took place in the 1.0.x branch to address some security and regression issues.
Several builds codenamed Deer Park were released ( Alpha 1 in May 2005, and Alpha 2 in July), and were originally destined to become Firefox 1.1. However, Mozilla Foundation decided to change the version number of the next major release from 1.1 to 1.5 , since it contained more new features than originally planned. The builds use the latest Gecko core (1.8b4) as a basis, and feature numerous bug fixes, partial support for Scalable Vector Graphics, and support for the HTML canvas element. In an attempt to dissuade end-users from downloading the preview versions, Deer Park versions do not use the standard Mozilla Firefox branding.
Throughout its development, Firefox versions have had internal codenames. These have a basis in real locations, with codenames such as Three Kings, New Zealand , Royal Oak, New Zealand , One Tree Hill, New Zealand , Mission Bay, New Zealand , and Greenlane, New Zealand all referencing suburbs in Auckland, New Zealand, and the name Whangamata coming from a small seaside town on the Coromandel Peninsula, southeast of Auckland in New Zealand. Ben Goodger, who grew up in Auckland, chose these codenames. The other codenames included in the Firefox roadmap derive from an actual roadmap of a journey through California to Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona.
According to Goodger, Deer Park is not Deer Park, Victoria, but just a symbolic name. I was riding Long Island Rail Road a few weeks ago and saw the name go by and I thought it sounded nice . Therefore, this name probably references Deer Park, New York, a census-designated place on Long Island.
==Future development==
The next planned release of Firefox was supposed to be version 1.1, but has been renamed to 1.5. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 and 2 were released on September 9, 2005 and October 6, 2005 respectively, in preparation for the first release candidate which is expected at the end of October; most likely putting the final 1.5 release sometime in November 2005. Firefox 1.5 will resync the code-base of the release builds (as opposed to nightly builds) with the core trunk which contains additional features not available in 1.0, as it fork (software) from the trunk around the 0.9 release. As such, a backlog of bug fixes between 0.9 and the release of 1.0 will become available in 1.5. Version 1.5 will also implement a new Mac-like option interface, much criticized by some Windows and Linux users, with a Clear Private Data action to allow a person to clear their privacy related information without manually clicking the Clear All button. Users will have the option of clearing all privacy-related settings simply by exiting the browser or by using a keyboard shortcut, depending on their settings. Moreover, the Software Update System will improve with binary patches becoming possible . Users can also expect improvements in the Extension management system . An important feature to be enabled in Firefox 1.5 is partial support of the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 Full Specification. This move makes Firefox the second major browser to support some form of SVG natively (Opera (web browser) 8.0, released on April 19, 2005 supports most of the SVG 1.1 Tiny Specification).
On June 23, 2005, Mozilla Foundation announced that Firefox 1.5 (and other new Mozilla products) will no longer support Mac OS X v10.1. This is intended to improve the quality of Firefox releases on Mac OS X v10.2 and above. Users of 10.1 may still use Firefox version 1.0.x.
According to the roadmap, future Firefox development will feature three milestones: version 1.5, version 2.0 and version 3.0. Development for these releases will take place on the Mozilla trunk, with a release coming off a branch .
Likely goals for Firefox include :
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and future releases of Camino will also [http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.htmlarticle=7230 include the Java Embedding Plugin], which allow Mac OS X users to run Java applets with the latest 1.4 and 5.0 versions of Java (the default Java software shipped by Apple is not compatible to any browser, except its own Safari).
=Features=
The developers of Firefox aim to produce a browser that just works for most casual users. Those interested can add (as extensions and plugins) many features not packaged with Firefox.
==Usability and accessibility==
Developers put in a large amount of work towards simplifying Firefox s user interface. As a result, the interface appears less cluttered than that of many other internet suites. The design of Firefox s option panels leaves many of the infrequently used options found in the Mozilla Suite not visible in Firefox.
Firefox supports tabbed browsing, which allows users to open multiple web pages in the same browser window. This feature originated in the Mozilla Suite, which in turn had borrowed the feature from the popular [http://multizilla.mozdev.org MultiZilla] extension for Mozilla. Firefox also belongs in the group of browsers which early on adopted customizable pop-up blocking.
The browser has a number of features which help users find information. First, Firefox has an incremental find feature known as find as you type . With this feature enabled, a user can simply begin typing a word while viewing a web page, and Firefox automatically searches for it and highlights the first instance found. As the user types more of the word, Firefox refines its search.
Firefox also sports a built-in search toolbar with an extensible search engine listing. By default, Firefox allows users to search or [http://www.waywardpuppy.com/archives/2005/03/removing_firefo.html remove any unwanted ones].
Additionally, Firefox supports the custom keyword feature introduced by the Mozilla Suite. This feature allows users to access their Bookmarks from the location bar using keywords (and an optional query parameter). For example, using a custom keyword, a user can type google apple into the address bar and be redirected to the results of a Google search for apple . Custom keywords are provided out of the box for Google Search, Google Stock Search, Dictionary.com, Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia. When a user enters a keyword into the address bar that is not recognized by Firefox (for example, simply typing apple ), it automatically redirects the user to the first result yielded by a Google search for the word (or words).
==Customizability==
The design of Firefox aims at high extensibility. Through and a calendar, have become Firefox extensions.
One can view the extension system as a ground for experimentation, where one can test new functionalities. Occasionally, an extension becomes part of the official product (for example tabbed browsing, a feature which proved popular through the MultiZilla extension, eventually became part of standard Mozilla).
Firefox also supports a variety of themes/skins, which change its appearance. Themes consist of packages of Cascading Style Sheets and image files. The Mozilla Update web site offers many themes for downloading. Beyond adding a new theme, users can customize Firefox s interface by moving and manipulating its various buttons, fields, and menus, and likewise by adding and deleting entire toolbars.
A Firefox installation can keep all extensions and themes available on the Mozilla Update site up-to-date through Firefox s interface, which periodically checks for updates to installed themes and extensions.
Additionally, Firefox stores many hidden preferences that users can access by typing often lurk hidden in the about :config menu.
==Support for software standards==
The Mozilla Foundation takes pride in Firefox s compliance with existing standards, especially World Wide Web Consortium web standards. Firefox has extensive support for most basic standards including HTML, XML, XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, ECMAScript (JavaScript), Document Object Model, MathML, Document Type Definition, Extensible Stylesheet Language and XPath.
Firefox also supports PNG images and variable transparency, (which Internet Explorer will not support fully until the not-yet-released version 7 ). Indeed, Internet Explorer s lack of support for PNG images has occasioned much debate, as many web developers want to move away from the old GIF format, which does not have the same capabilities and image quality as PNG.
Mozilla contributors constantly improve Firefox s support for existing standards. Firefox has already implemented most of CSS Level 2 and some of the not-yet-completed CSS Level 3 standard. Also, work continues on implementing standards currently missing, including ).
==Cross-platform support==
Mozilla Firefox runs on a wide variety of platforms. Releases available on the primary distribution site support the following operating systems : *Various versions of Microsoft Windows, including Windows 98, 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 *Mac OS X. At the 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple programmers created a Firefox version for Mac OS X on the Intel platform, which worked well. *Linux-based operating systems using X.Org Server or XFree86
Firefox does not officially support Windows 95, but reportedly functions properly after the application of a few tweaks .
Since the Mozilla Foundation makes the Firefox source code available, users can also compile and run Firefox on a variety of other architectures and operating systems. Operating systems not supported by Firefox, but known to run the browser include: *Solaris Operating Environment (x86 and SPARC) *OS/2 *AIX operating system *FreeBSD *PC-BSD *NetBSD *BeOS *SkyOS *RISC OS (ARM) *OpenBSD *Ubuntu_Linux Builds for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition also exist .
As of 2005, known projects exist to port Firefox to RISC OS.
Firefox uses the same format to store users profiles (which contain their personal browser settings) even on different operating systems, so a profile may be used on multiple platforms, so long as all of the platforms can access the profile (e.g., the profile is stored on a File Allocation Table partition accessible from both Windows and Linux). This functionality is useful for users who dual-boot their machines. However, it may occasionally cause problems, especially with extensions.
==Internationalization and localization==
Contributors throughout the world have collaborated in translating the Firefox browser into many frequently used languages/locales, including some of the least often supported locales, such as Chichewa language, but excluding Latvian language, Malay language, Arabic language, Thai language, Vietnamese language, Hindi language and Persian language. Because of the use of DTD and property files for storing the string (computer science) displayed to users, even users without a programming background can easily complete part of the internationalization and localization process, requiring only a simple text editor.
==Web development tools==
Like the Mozilla Suite, Firefox comes with two web-development tools: a DOM Inspector and a JavaScript Console. Firefox aficionados claim that no other browser includes the DOM Inspector, and that Firefox s JavaScript Console surpasses the consoles available in other browsers. While not installed by default, the tools become available via a custom install.
==Other features==
Powered by RSS (protocol) or Atom (standard) feeds, Live Bookmarks , another feature of Firefox, allow users to dynamically monitor changes to their favorite news sources. When this feature was first introduced in version 1.0 PR, some users worried that Firefox was beginning to include non-essential features, and succumb to bloat, much like the Mozilla Suite. However, these worries have largely abated.
Firefox also includes a customizable download manager. Users can configure the browser to either open downloaded files automatically or save them directly to the disk. By default, Firefox downloads all files to a user s desktop on Windows or to the user s home directory on Linux, but users can easily configure it to prompt for a specific download location.
==Security==
Some of Firefox s key security features include the use of the sandbox (computer security), same origin policy and external protocol whitelisting .
Some argue that an important characteristic of Firefox security lies in the fact that anyone can see its source code. At least one other person reviews proposed software changes, and typically yet another person carries out a super-review . Once placed in the software, changes become visible for anyone else to consider, protest against, or improve .
In addition, the Mozilla Foundation operates a bug bounty scheme: people who report a valid critical security bug receive a US$500 cash reward (for each report) and a Mozilla T-shirt . According to the Mozilla Foundation, this bug bounty system aims to encourage more people to find and report security bugs in our products, so that we can make our products even more secure than they already are . It should be noted that anyone in the world can report a bug. Also, all users can have access to the source code of Mozilla Firefox, to the internal design documentation, to forum discussions, and to other materials that can help in finding bugs.
The Mozilla Foundation has implemented a policy on security bugs in order to help contributors to deal with security vulnerabilities . The policy restricts access to a security-related bug report to members of the security team until after Mozilla has shipped a fix for the problem. This approach aims to minimize the exploitation of publicly known vulnerabilities and to give the developers time to issue a patch. While similar to other responsible disclosure policies operated by software vendors such as Microsoft, this policy falls short of the full disclosure principle favored by some security researchers.
As of October 2005, Secunia has [http://secunia.com/product/4227/ reported 3 unpatched vulnerabilities] in Firefox (with the most serious one marked less critical ), versus 20 for [http://secunia.com/product/11/ Internet Explorer] (with the most serious one marked highly critical ), and 0 for [http://secunia.com/product/4932/ Opera].
Another security source, SecurityFocus, reports [http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgil=1&c=12&vendor=Mozilla&version=1.0.7&title=Firefox 1 known vulnerability] in Firefox 1.0.7 (fixed in 1.5 Beta 2), versus [http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgil=1&c=12&vendor=Microsoft&version=6.0%20SP2&title=Internet%20Explorer 59 unpatched vulnerabilities] in Internet Explorer 6 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2.
No publicly-known attacks since its launch have been discovered.
=Criticisms=
Firefox has sometimes attracted criticism for lacking features found in some other browsers. Many users observe that the developers have not implemented frequently requested features (The developers state in response that they intend Firefox as fairly minimal browser in order to reduce Software_bloat and bugs, while retaining a high degree of extensibility.) Most of these features and many others exist as installable Firefox extensions, but not all users wish to install extensions for the features they want, preferring to have all the features they desire available within the official software package.
Some note that Firefox takes longer to launch than other browsers such as Internet Explorer or Opera. The non-platform-native XUL implementation of the user interface may cause this perceived delay. Other Gecko-based browsers such as K-Meleon which use platform-native user interface implementations generally run faster than Firefox. IE also launches faster than Firefox as it is executed on Windows startup. Another common criticism involves Firefox using much more memory than other browsers.
Users switching from Internet Explorer sometimes find that certain websites do not render as expected in Firefox. Almost always this turns out not a Firefox-specific problem but one of the respective website which uses code that does not comply with the standards (mostly W3C ones), code specific to Internet Explorer, or code utilizing ActiveX applets or VBScript.
=Market adoption=
==Usage share==
: Statistics reference: Usage share of web browsers
Web-surfers have adopted Firefox rapidly, despite the dominance of Internet Explorer in the browser market. According to several sources (as listed in statistics reference), by September 2005, Firefox had around 7.6% of global market share - 10% for trail behind with around 5%.
==Download count==
According to Mozilla s server log, over a million downloads of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 occurred within 24 hours of its launch on November 9, 2004. Within 99 days, the download count reached 25 million . By April 29, 2005 50 million downloads of version 1.0.x had taken place , by August 14, 2005, the mark reached 80 million and by September 20, 2005, it turned to 90 million . 344 days after the inital release of version 1.0, Firefox had its 100 millionth download . The download count is available as [http://feeds.spreadfirefox.com/downloads/firefox.xml an RSS feed], so that [http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/05/add-firefox-download-counter-on-your.html firefox download counter] can be added on websites to keep track of the number of downloads in near-realtime.
Cumulative downloads increased in a near-linear fashion during the first quarter of 2005. In other words, the download rate remained fairly stable. None of the Mozilla Foundation s previous product releases experienced that kind of growth.
It should be noted that a download count is not a user count: one download can be installed over many machines; while one person can download the software multiple times.
==Spread Firefox campaigns==
The rapid adoption of Firefox apparently accelerated in part due to a series of aggressive community-marketing campaigns since 2004. For example, Blake Ross and Asa Dotzler organized a series of events dubbed marketing week .
On September 14, 2004, a community-marketing portal dubbed Spread Firefox (SFX) debuted along with the Firefox Preview Release, creating a centralized space for the discussion of various marketing techniques. The portal enhanced the Get Firefox button program, giving users referrer points as an incentive. The site lists the top 250 referrers. From time to time, the SFX team or SFX members launch marketing events organized at the Spread Firefox website.
==Organization adoption==
During the FOSDEM 2005 conference, Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, said that he knew a few companies that had deployed the Firefox browser or the Thunderbird mail client across a million seats. Those companies remained reluctant to publicize the migration, due to in-house concerns that this might damage their relationship with Microsoft .
According to [http://news.com.com/IBM+backs+Firefox+in-house/2100-7344_3-5704750.html a CNET article] published on May 12, 2005, about 30,000 of IBM s staff (about 10% of the total) already use Firefox. IBM encourages its employees to use Firefox as the company s standard web browser, with support from the company s help desk staff.
Starting in quarter 3 of 2005, the Networking Services and Information Technology department of the University of Chicago will [http://blog.ebrahim.org/archives/2005/06/02/uchicago_to_distribute_firefox_and_thund.php include both Firefox and Thunderbird in its connectivity package] for all incoming students.
==Industry adoption==
Since the pre-1.0 stages, a number of well-known websites and [http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200505181716522.html announced] support for Firefox for its eBay Picture Manager.
Search engine companies including Google, Yahoo! and A9.com now also offer Firefox extensions for accessing their services, in addition to their original Internet-Explorer add-ons.
A number of commercialized versions of the Firefox browser have developed outside the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation. The current version of Netscape, known as Netscape Browser or Netscape 8, combines the functionalities of Firefox and Internet Explorer. And a startup company, Round Two (formerly Mozsource and more formerly E-Flo), plans to build enhancements for Firefox .
==Portable Firefox==
John Haller has developed [http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ Portable Firefox] as one of the major offsprings of the Firefox project. He designed it to run on USB flash drives, CD-RW drives (in packet mode), Zip drives, external hard drives or some digital audio players. It retains nearly all of Firefox s features. Extensions that work in Firefox also work with Portable Firefox. It uses compression to reduce overall footprint. As a result of this compression, Portable Firefox loads quickly from a USB device.
John Haller has started development work on [http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/live/ Portable Firefox Live], which aims to run on CD-R or other read-only media.
==Opinions and responses==
Despite Firefox s apparent gains on Internet Explorer, Microsoft head of Australian operations, Steve Vamos, stated that he did not see Firefox as a threat and that there was not significant demand for the featureset of Firefox amongst Microsoft s users. Vamos stated that he himself never used it personally . Even Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has used Firefox, but he has commented that so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it (Weber, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4508897.stm BBC News]).
Ironically, according to a Microsoft SEC Filing on June 30, 2005, it acknowledged that browsers such as Mozilla are competitive threats to Internet Explorer: Competitors such as Mozilla offer software that competes with the Internet Explorer Web browsing capabilities of our Windows operating system products. ([http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.htmlarticle=7233 MozillaZine])
=Footnotes=
# [http://www.mozilla.org/credits/ Mozilla contributors list], Mozilla.org # [http://www.forbes.com/2004/09/29/cx_ah_0929tentech.htmlpartner=tentech_newsletter Forbes], September 29, 2004. # [http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20040916.html Wall Street Journal], September 16, 2004. Walter Mossberg wrote : I suggest dumping Microsoft s Internet Explorer Web browser, which has a history of security breaches. I recommend instead Mozilla Firefox, which is free at www.mozilla.org. It s not only more secure but also more modern and advanced, with tabbed browsing, which allows multiple pages to be open on one screen, and a better pop-up ad blocker than the belated one Microsoft recently added to IE. # Stross, [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html New York Times]. December 19, 2004. The article states that With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents , too. (Your children in college are already using it.) # [http://feeds.spreadfirefox.com/downloads/firefox.xml Mozilla Firefox Download Counts] # [http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarrregser=serial&entry=78344043 Firefox trademark], USPTO # [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.html Mozilla Firefox - Brand Name Frequently Asked Questions]. Mozilla.org # [http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/branding-firefox branding firefox]. John Hicks weblog # [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html Mozilla Firefox Roadmap] (see also: [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap-1.0.html Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Roadmap]) # From Ben Goodger s weblog: #* [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/007150.html Prefwindow V] ( #* [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/007377.html Prefwindow V: Screenshots] (January 23, 2005) # [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/008067.html Ben Goodger discusses the Firefox update system] (May 2, 2005). # [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/008066.html Changes for Extension Developers] (May 2, 2005). Ben Goodger s weblog. # [http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2005/04/svg-nightlies Firefox nightlies now build with SVG] ( ). # [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007168.html 1.8 alpha 6 around the corner] (December 26, 2004). Source: Asa Dotzler s weblog. # Mozilla Wiki . [http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/Firefox:2.0_PRD Firefox:2.0 PRD]. A document that describes the product requirements for Firefox 2, and also anticipates an interim milestone marker for Firefox 1.5. # [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/22/410963.aspx IE7 beta 1 A few details...] (April 22, 2005). Source: Internet Explorer weblog. In the blog entry, Chris Wilson said that Microsoft would soon [s]upport the alpha channel in PNG images [in Internet Explorer 7]. Weve actually had this on our radar for a long time, and have had it supported in the code for a while now. We have certainly heard the clear feedback from the web design community that per-pixel alpha is a really important feature. # [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ nightlies now build with SVG enabled by default] (May , 2005). Source: Mozilla SVG Project page. # [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html Firefox System Requirements]. Mozilla.org . # [http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/windows_95/ Run Firefox in Windows 95 (and Windows 98 original release)]. Source: John Haller s website. Details a procedure to install Firefox on Windows 95 and the original release of Windows 98. # [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#download Firefox release notes for the 1.x series]. Mozilla.org . # [http://www.freshports.org/www/firefox/ FreshPort entry on Firefox]. freshports.org . # [http://www.mozilla-x86-64.com/ Mozilla for the Windows x64 platform]. # [http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Sep/12/external_protocol_whitelisting.html External Protocol Whitelisting]. Neil Turner s weblog. # [http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/life-cycle.html Hacking Mozilla]. Mozilla.org . # [http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program]. Mozilla.org . # [http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty-faq.html Mozilla Security Bug Bounty FAQ]. Mozilla.org . # [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/security-bugs-policy.html Handling Mozilla Security Bugs]. Mozilla.org . # [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007574.html firefox 25,000,000]. Source: Asa Dotzler s weblog. # [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/fifty.html Firefox: Blazing a Trail to 50,000,000]. Spread Firefox . # [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008701.html firefox 80,000,000]. Source: Asa Dotzler s weblog. # [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2005/09/90000000_firefo.html 90,000,000 firefox downloads]. Source: Asa Dotzler s weblog. # [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2005/10/firefox_hits_on.html firefox hits one hundred million downloads]. Source: Asa Dotzler s weblog. # [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39189585,00.htm Firefox sneaks into the enterprise]. ZDNet UK . # [http://mozillanews.org/article=d688cc9ed8f620a1d75acef2b2e314e0 Round Two looks to launch enhanced Firefox]. MozillaNews . # [http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39166227,00.htm Microsoft: Firefox does not threaten IE s market share]. ZDNet .
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=See also=
*Mozilla from which the Firefox project descends *Mozilla Thunderbird E-mail application *Mozilla Calendar personal information manager *Mozilla Sunbird calendar application *The Book of Mozilla *Mozilla Update *Moezilla#Firefox-ko, personification of Firefox. *Mozilla Foundation *Mozilla Corporation *List of web browsers *List of computer term etymologies *Comparison of web browsers *XUL, Firefox UI toolkit, integral part of the Mozilla platform
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