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Mozilla Firefox
Developer(s)Mozilla Foundation / Mozilla Corporation
Stable release
Standard132.0.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata / November 12, 2024; 4 days ago (November 12, 2024)
Extended support release 1128.4.0esr[2] Edit this on Wikidata / October 29, 2024; 18 days ago (October 29, 2024)
Extended support release 2115.17.0esr[3] / October 29, 2024; 18 days ago (2024-10-29)
Preview release
Beta & developer edition133.0b8[4] Edit this on Wikidata / November 13, 2024; 3 days ago (November 13, 2024)
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Engine
  • Gecko
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Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWeb browser
LicenseMPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Websitewww.mozilla.com/firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers.[6] Beginning as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has since become the Mozilla Foundation's main development focus (along with the Thunderbird mail and news client), replacing the Mozilla Suite as the foundation's official main software release.

Before the November 9 2004 1.0 release, Firefox had already gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes[7] and the Wall Street Journal.[8] With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after the initial 1.0 release, Firefox became one of the most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among home users.[9] On October 19 2005, Firefox had its 100 millionth download, less than 1 year (just 344 days) after the release of version 1.0 (see Download count below). Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29 2005, with more than 2 million downloads within the first 36 hours.[10] Firefox hit 200 million downloads in August 2006 according to the spreadfirefox website[11].

Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, a skinnable interface and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Firefox has attracted attention as an alternative to other browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari, which are included as standard browsers with versions of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, respectively.

As of July 2006, estimates suggest that Firefox's usage share is around 12% of overall browser usage (see market adoption below), with its highest usage in Germany (about 39% as of July 2006).[12]

History

Further information: History of Mozilla Firefox

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'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, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, The Mozilla Foundation announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.[13]

The Firefox project has gone through many name changes through its history. Originally titled Phoenix, it had to be renamed because of trademark issues Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked mixed reactions, particularly since the free database software Firebird uses the same name. In late April 2003, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird in order to avoid confusion with the database software. However, continuing pressure from the FLOSS community forced another change, and on February 9 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox (or Firefox for short).

The Firefox project went through many versions before 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. Aside from stability and security fixes, the Mozilla Foundation has as of October 2006 released one major update to Firefox - 1.5 on November 29, 2005.

Future development

Template:Beta software According to the roadmap, future Firefox development will include version 2.0 and version 3.0. Development for version 2.0 will occur on the Gecko 1.8 branch from which version 1.5 was released, with the release starting the Gecko 1.8.1 branch, while development on version 3.0, which will be based on Gecko 1.9, occurs simultaneously on the Mozilla trunk. Mozilla is developing versions 2.0 and 3.0 simultaneously in order to ship front-end innovation in version 2.0 built on a more stable back-end, while completing major architectural and user interface changes for version 3.0.[14]

Goals for Firefox include changes to the tabbed browsing environment, enhancements to the extensions manager, enhancements to the GUI,[15] improvements to the find, search and software update engines; a greater level of accessibility, session and download restore, and new improved Anti-phishing features.[16] Newer versions of Firefox will use Cairo as the rendering layer instead of GDI+. [17] Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and future releases of Camino will also include the Java Embedding plugin,[18] 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 with any browser, except its own Safari).

Version 2.0

File:Firefox2RC2.png
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2 under Mac OS X Tiger
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The redesigned "Add-ons" window in Firefox 2.0 under Ubuntu Linux

The code name for Mozilla Firefox 2.0 was Bon Echo, but for the official Beta 1 release it was branded with the Firefox 2 name. It still retains the Bon Echo name for the unofficial builds. "Bon Echo", like other Firefox development names, is the name of a public park, Bon Echo Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.[19] The first alpha version (2.0a1) was released on March 21 2006, the second alpha version (2.0a2) was released on May 12 2006,[20] and the third alpha version (2.0a3) was released on May 27 2006.[21] The first beta version (2.0b1) was released on July 12 2006,[22] and the second beta (2.0b2) shipped on August 31 2006.[23] The first release candidate was released on September 26 2006. The second release candidate was released on October 6 2006. A third release candidate is planned for October 17 2006[24], and may become the final release if there are no major bugs found.

The alpha and beta releases are aimed primarily at the developer and testing community as there are still some bugs present. Some of the new features that the Mozilla Firefox 2 browser will bring are:

  • New Windows installer using the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
  • New anti-phishing features
  • There are now several hidden options for how the tabs are displayed, and the close behavior is slightly different
  • A history of recently closed tabs and the ability to reopen closed tabs
  • Automatic restoration of the user's browsing session if there is a crash
  • New default theme with new icons and a new tab bar design.[25]
  • Inline spell checking in text boxes and the ability to search in these areas.
  • Search suggestions now appear in the search box auto-complete for Google and Yahoo!
  • New search service that supports Sherlock and OpenSearch engines
  • Combining the extensions and themes managers into an "Add-ons" manager, updating it to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
  • New search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
  • Improved support for previewing and subscribing to Web feeds (RSS and Atom)
  • New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
  • Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) text using svg:textPath
  • Client-side session and persistent storage

As of version 2.0 beta 2, the "Preferences" dialog has been redesigned for usability. Settings have been rearranged between tabs. In the Linux version, the traditional OK/Cancel button pair has been replaced with a single close button, GNOME-style, while in the Windows version, the old buttons have been preserved; this behavior can be customized in either version via the hidden browser.preferences.instantApply option.

Version 3.0

The logo of Minefield development version 3.0a1
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Mozilla Firefox (codename Minefield), version 3.0a1 (Alpha) running on Windows XP

The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is Gran Paradiso.[26] The precursory releases are currently codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk releases. "Gran Paradiso", like other Firefox development names, is an actual place. "Gran Paradiso" is the name of a national park in Italy. When Firefox 3.0 branches, it will adopt the "Gran Paradiso" codename. The release timeframe for Firefox 3.0 is first quarter 2007.[27]

The largest change for Firefox 3 will be the implementation of Gecko 1.9, an updated layout engine. It will also include several new features and some that were bumped from Firefox 2, such as the overhauled Places system for storing bookmarks and history in an SQL backend.[28] Due to Microsoft's decision to end support for Windows 98 and Windows Me on July 11, 2006, and because Cairo does not support Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4.0, Firefox 3.0 will not run on those operating systems.[29][30] Unlike previous versions, Firefox 3 on Mac OS X will be written in Cocoa.

The Future

Talks about what will happen after Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 are already underway. Although Gecko 1.9 is nowhere near ready for release yet Brendan[31] is taking about bringing Gecko and thus Firefox into the 21st century. Some plans are like the following:

  • Breaking of frozen API's too allow much needed updated and modifications.
  • Includion of JS 2.0 and onward to higher things.
  • More graphics work such as further enhancements to Canvas and the graphics substrate as a whole.
  • Optimise, simplify and reduce the code size of the Mozilla codebase.

Further updates are expected with more details as gecko 1.9 progresses.

Features

Main article: Features of Mozilla Firefox
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Firefox 1.5 on Mac OS X with the KDE theme

The developers of Firefox aim to produce a browser that "just works" for most casual users. User created Extensions and plugins can be installed to integrate with Firefox giving a wide range of choice for the end-user. The main features included with Firefox are tabbed browsing, incremental find, live bookmarking, a customizable download manager and a built-in Search toolbar. The user can customise their version of Firefox with downloadable extensions, a variety of different themes and skins, and many hidden preferences that are easily accessible to the advanced user.

Mozilla Firefox claims support for many software standards, including but not restricted to: HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSL, SVG, XPath and PNG images with variable transparency. Firefox release builds do not yet pass the Acid2 standards-compliance test. However, there are developmental versions of Firefox that currently pass the Acid2 test, and Firefox 3 is expected to pass Acid2.[32]

Mozilla Firefox is a multi-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, including 98, 98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Server 2003. It also runs on Mac OS X, and the Linux-based operating systems using the X Window System. Although not officially released for certain operating systems, the freely available source code works for many other operating systems, including but not restricted to: FreeBSD [33], OS/2, Solaris, SkyOS, BeOS and more recently, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition [34].

Firefox also provides an environment in which web developers can use built in tools (from extensions). These include a Javascript Console, a DOM Inspector, Venkman JavaScript debugger, and an integrated development toolkit called Web Developer [35].

The fact that Firefox has fewer and less severe security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer [36] is often cited as a reason to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox for improved security. [37] [38] [39] [40] However, recent studies show that Firefox has surpassed Internet Explorer in the amount of vulnerabilities in the year 2006 (through September 2006).[41]

Firefox uses SSL/TLS to protect communications with web servers using strong cryptography. It also supports smartcards for secure login to web servers. It uses a sandbox security model and the developers use a "bug bounty" scheme, for finding fixes for some security and feature additions.

Performance

Internet Week ran an article in which many readers reported anecdotes of high memory usage in Firefox 1.5.[42] Mozilla developers claim the higher memory use of Firefox 1.5 is sometimes at least partially an effect of the new fast backwards and forwards (FastBack) feature.[43] Other known causes of memory problems are misbehaving extensions, such as Google Toolbar and Adblock.[44] However, when PC Magazine compared memory usage of Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer, they found that Firefox seemed to use only about as much memory as the other browsers.[45]

Softpedia notes that Firefox takes longer to start up than other browsers[46] and browser speed tests confirm this to be the case.[47] Some note that Firefox takes longer to launch than other browsers such as Internet Explorer or Opera on Windows. Other Gecko-based browsers such as K-Meleon, which use platform-native user interface implementations, generally run faster than Firefox. IE also launches slightly faster than Firefox on Microsoft Windows since many of its components are built into Windows and are loaded at startup.[48] On Microsoft Windows, this can be addressed by using the open-source FFPreloader Utility.[49]

Licensing

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) considers the official Firefox binaries released by Mozilla to not be free software because they include the proprietary crash reporter Talkback, have trademark restrictions, and force the user to accept a clickwrap agreement (the latter only applies to the Windows version).[50] Google and Mozilla developers are working on Airbag, an open-source replacement for Talkback, that will allow official Firefox builds to be entirely free of proprietary software.[51]

In the past, Firefox was licensed solely under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). [52] The FSF criticizes the MPL for being weak copyleft; the license permits, in limited ways, proprietary, derivative works. Code under the MPL also cannot be legally linked with code under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).[53][54] To address these concerns, Mozilla tri-licensed Firefox under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL, which permits developers to use whichever license they wish in creating derivative works. The effect of the tri-licensing is that developers can legally link Firefox code with GPL or LGPL code, but still allows them to create proprietary, derivative works (though not both at once). [52]

In September 2006, a controversy relating to the proprietary licensing of portions of Firefox, and the Mozilla Corporation's requirement that they give their approval to all patches applied to Firefox prior to it being compiled and distributed as a binary package in free software distributions (specifically Debian), or the distribution is not refer to the package by the trademarked name "Firefox".[55]

This controversy led to the creation of the free software alternative Iceweasel, officially sponsored by GNU's Gnuzilla project. Iceweasel removes the proprietary plugins and artwork, and is more lenient with regards to its name being applied to derivative works. This makes the software package acceptable to exclusively free software distributions.

Market adoption

Usage share of Mozilla Firefox over time
A graph of Firefox 1.x cumulative downloads in millions

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. Internet Explorer has seen a steady decline of its usage share since Firefox's release. According to several sources (as listed in statistics reference), by July 2006, Firefox had around 12% of global usage share.

Europe, according to a study released by the firm XiTi on 2006-06-16, generally had higher percentages of Firefox use, with an average of 20%.[56]

Download count

Cumulative downloads have increased in a near-linear fashion since the time Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004 until July 2006. In other words, the download rate has remained fairly stable. None of the Mozilla Foundation's previous product releases experienced that kind of growth.[57]

Downloads of Firefox 1.x since November 9 2004
Date Number of days Downloads (millions)
November 10 2004 1 1[58]
February 16 2005 99 25[59]
April 29 2005 171 50[60]
July 26 2005 259 75[61]
October 19 2005 344 100[62]
March 3 2006 479 150[63]
July 31 2006 629 200[64]

These download counts do not include downloads using software updates and downloads from third-party websites. The download counter is available as an RSS feed,[65] so that the Firefox download can be added on websites to keep track of the number of downloads in near-realtime.

It should be noted that a download count is not a user count, as a single download can be installed over many machines, or one person can download the software multiple times. Assuming that Firefox users browse about as many pages as the average Internet user, Firefox users make up about 120 million of the Internet's one billion users.[66]

Spread Firefox campaigns

Main article: Spread Firefox

The rapid adoption of Firefox apparently accelerated in part because of a series of aggressive marketing campaigns since 2004. For example, Blake Ross and Asa Dotzler organized a series of events dubbed "marketing week".

On September 14 2004, a 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.

World Firefox Day 2006

The World Firefox Day campaign started on July 15 2006, which is the anniversary of the founding of the Mozilla Foundation, and ran until September 15 2006. It involves people registering themselves and a friend on the website for nomination to have their names displayed on the Firefox Friends Wall, a digital wall that will be displayed at the headquarters of the Mozilla Foundation. An e-mail is sent to the nominated friend which provides a hyperlink to download Mozilla Firefox. If the friend accepts to download the program the nomination is accepted. The names will also appear in the source code of the next version of Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 2.0. The offer has ended since September 16 2006. Currently, the World Firefox Day website contains a placeholder page with instructions how to view the names from Firefox 2.0.

The submitted names will be viewable from Firefox 2.0 by:

  1. Click the "About Mozilla Firefox" menu item from the Help menu. The "About" dialog appears.
  2. Click the "Credits" button.
  3. Click the "Friends" link that appears.
  4. The "World Firefox Day" website (http://www.worldfirefoxday.com/) will open.

Industry adoption

Since the pre-1.0 stages, several well-known websites and web applications, including Gmail, have supported (and in some cases, required) the use of Firefox. Since March 30 2005, the Google search engine has utilized the link prefetching feature of Firefox for faster searching. Link prefetching involves a standards-compliant optimization technique that utilizes the browser's idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. Google, Inc. also recommends Firefox as the browser for its Blogger.com weblog service.[67] On May 18 2005, eBay announced support for Firefox for its eBay Picture Manager.[68]

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. Google has released four Extensions for Firefox,[69] further affirming the company's interest in Firefox.

Several 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. Flock plans to build enhancements for Firefox.[70] Firefox is used by the 3B browser, which browses the web as a 3D city of web sites or a 3D store.

According to a CNET article published on May 12 2005,[71] 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; support is provided by the company's help desk staff.

In December 2005, it was announced that Dell UK would start shipping the Firefox browser pre-installed on their PCs. [72]

Institutional adoption

During the FOSDEM 2005 conference, Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, noted that Firefox has had more success in the consumer market than with institutions.[73] He also theorized that pressure from Microsoft caused institutions who had adopted Firefox to remain silent about it.

I know companies that are deploying Firefox or Thunderbird, but they aren't talking about it as they don't want to see an increase in their [Microsoft] Office licence price.

Some observers, such as Serdar Yegulalp of TechTarget[74] and Jim Rapooza of eWEEK[75] note that Firefox does not provide tools that make institutional deployment easier, such as a client customization kit (which Mozilla has since released[76]), Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages. Furthermore, they note that Firefox does not support some technologies that may be required in an institional environment, such as ActiveX and Active Directory.

Portable versions

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The logo and splash screen for the unofficial portable version of Firefox

Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition[77] (also known as Firefox Portable) is a repackaged version of Firefox designed to run from a USB flash drive, iPod, external hard drive, or other portable media. The newest version can be run live from a CD. It arose out of a mozillaZine thread in June of 2004. John T. Haller released the first packaged version and has led its further development. It includes a specialized launcher that adjusts extensions and themes to work as it is moved between different computers. There is also a portable version of Firefox available for Macintosh computers called Portable Firefox OS X.[78]

Here is a full list of Firefox in portable app form:

Response from competition

Despite Firefox's apparent gains on Internet Explorer, Microsoft's 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.[82] Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has used Firefox, but he has commented "so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?"[83]

However, 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."[84]

In August 2006, Microsoft made an offer to Mozilla to help integrate Firefox with the forthcoming Windows Vista,[85] which Mozilla accepted.[86].

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Firefox 132.0.2, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes". 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Firefox ESR 128.4.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes". 29 October 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Firefox ESR 115.17.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes". mozilla.org. 29 October 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Index of /pub/firefox/releases/133.0b8/". 13 November 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  5. ^ "Firefox Nightly 134.0a1, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes". 28 October 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  6. ^ Mozilla contributors list, Mozilla.org
  7. ^ Forbes, September 29 2004.
  8. ^ 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."
  9. ^ Stross, 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.)"
  10. ^ Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more: more than two million
  11. ^ spreadfirefox
  12. ^ Global usage share Mozilla Firefox has increased. OneStat.com.
  13. ^ "mozilla development roadmap". Retrieved 2006-10-08.
  14. ^ 1.8 alpha 6 around the corner (December 26 2004). Source: Asa Dotzler's weblog.
  15. ^ "Firefox 2 Visual Update".. A page showing the various bits of visual update.
  16. ^ "Mozilla Wiki".. A table that lists and links the intended features for Firefox 2.
  17. ^ "Mozilla Cairo Vector Graphics".. A page describing the future usage of Cairo.
  18. ^ Mozilla to include Java Embedding plugin. MozillaZine.
  19. ^ "Firefox2 - MozillaWiki". Retrieved 2006-09-17.
  20. ^ Bon Echo Alpha 2 Milestone
  21. ^ Bon Echo Alpha 3 Milestone Released
  22. ^ Firefox 2 Beta 1 Milestone Released
  23. ^ Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 2 Release Notes
  24. ^ [1]
  25. ^ Default Theme Update
  26. ^ "Google Groups: mozilla.dev.planning". Retrieved 2006-09-17.
  27. ^ Mozilla Release Roadmap.
  28. ^ http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places
  29. ^ Firefox 3.0 will not support Windows 98 or ME
  30. ^ "Gecko 1.9 Roadmap - MozillaWiki". Retrieved 2006-09-17.
  31. ^ Brendan's Roadmap
  32. ^ Firefox Passes Acid2. TechSpot Weblog.
  33. ^ FreshPorts entry on Firefox. freshports.org.
  34. ^ Mozilla X86 website
  35. ^ Web Developer Site
  36. ^ Comparison of web browsers#Vulnerabilities Vulnerabilities. Comparison of web browser.
  37. ^ Time to Dump Internet Explorer. SecurityFocus.
  38. ^ CNET editors' reviewfor Mozilla Firefox. C|Net Reviews.
  39. ^ Are the Browser Wars Back?. Slate.
  40. ^ Switching from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. mozilla.com.
  41. ^ Firefox Sports More Bugs, But IE Takes 9 Times Longer To Patch TechWeb
  42. ^ Firefox 1.5: Not Ready For Prime Time? InternetWeek.
  43. ^ Bug 319262 - Significant memory leak. Mozilla.org Bugzilla.
  44. ^ Problematic Extensions. MozillaZine Knowledge Base.
  45. ^ Which New Browser Is Best: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?. PC Magazine.
  46. ^ "Mozilla Firefox Review". Softpedia. Retrieved 2006-09-22.
  47. ^ HowtoCreate.co.uk Browser Speed Comparisons [2]
  48. ^ http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
  49. ^ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/
  50. ^ Free Software Directory: Firefox [3]
  51. ^ Deploying the Airbag. BSBlog (Mozilla developer Benjamin Smedberg's weblog).
  52. ^ a b Mozilla Foundation MPL Relicensing FAQ [4]
  53. ^ Richard Stallman. On the Netscape Public License. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/netscape-npl.html
  54. ^ GNU comments on MPL [5]
  55. ^ Debian bug report log #354622: "[packages 'firefox' and 'thunderbird'] use Mozilla Firefox trademark without permission" [6]
  56. ^ http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/docs/XiTiMonitor-FirefoxSurvey-190606.pdf
  57. ^ Firefox and more: the graphs (part 1). Asa Dotzler's weblog.
  58. ^ 1,000,000+ downloads on day 1
  59. ^ firefox 25,000,000
  60. ^ celebrating 50 million firefox downloads
  61. ^ Firefox Exceeds 75 million Downloads
  62. ^ firefox hits one hundred million downloads
  63. ^ 150 million and counting!
  64. ^ Firefox 200 Million Downloads - what it means
  65. ^ http://feeds.spreadfirefox.com/downloads/firefox.xml
  66. ^ Internet Usage Statistics. Internet World Stats.
  67. ^ Where can I upgrade my browser? Blogger Help.
  68. ^ eBay Picture Manager Enhancements. eBay.
  69. ^ http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/extensions/index.html
  70. ^ Round Two looks to launch enhanced Firefox. MozillaNews.
  71. ^ http://news.com.com/IBM+backs+Firefox+in-house/2100-7344_3-5704750.html
  72. ^ Firefox shipping on Dell UK. blakeross.com.
  73. ^ Firefox sneaks into the enterprise. ZDNet UK.
  74. ^ Serdar Yegulalp. "How to switch an enterprise from IE to Firefox". TechTarget. Retrieved 2006-10-08.
  75. ^ Jim Rapooza. "Mozilla Firefox 1.0". eWEEK. Retrieved 2006-10-08.
  76. ^ "Firefox 1.5 CCK (Client Customization Kit) Wizard". Retrieved 2006-09-22.
  77. ^ a b http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
  78. ^ a b http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/firefox
  79. ^ http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablefirefox/
  80. ^ http://software.u3.com/Product_Details.aspx?ProductId=89
  81. ^ "WinPenPack - X-Software collection". Retrieved 2006-09-17.
  82. ^ Microsoft: Firefox does not threaten IE's market share. ZDNet.
  83. ^ The assault on software giant Microsoft. BBC News.
  84. ^ Firefox a threat. MozillaZine.
  85. ^ http://news.com.com/Microsoft+reaches+out+to+Firefox+developers/2100-7344_3-6108221.html?tag=nl
  86. ^ http://news.com.com/Microsoft+offers+helping+hand+to+Firefox/2100-1032_3-6109455.html

References

http://www.heise.de/security/artikel/61652" ignored (help) 14/2005, page 202.

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