Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
is a graphical web browser, written by the Mozilla Corporation in
conjunction with volunteers. It is the most widely used Linux
web browser. It continues to take web browsing
market share away from Internet Explorer, which is regarded as being
less secure.
Firefox supports many software standards, including HTML, XML,
XHTML, CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSLT, XPath, and
PNG images with alpha transparency.
Firefox's implementation of the HTTPS protocol utilizes
SSL/TLS in an effort to protect communications with web servers via its
strong
cryptographical capabilities.
To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine,
which implements most current web standards.
Firefox 20.0
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Price
Free to download
Size
22.3MB
License
Mozilla Public License 1.1
Developer
Mozilla Foundation
Website
www.mozilla.org
System Requirements
Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz
CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater)
64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
52 MB hard drive space
GLib 2.12 or higher
GTK+2.10 or higher
Pango 1.14 or higher
X.Org 1.0 or higher
libstdc++ 4.3 or higher
Optional:
NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
DBus 1.0 or higher
HAL 0.5.8 or higher
GNOME 2.16 or higher
Support
Sites:
Firefox2 Project Page,
Knowledge
Base, Firefox
Plugins, Firefox
Extension Guru's Blog
Selected
Reviews:
The
Bottom Line, arstechnica,
CNet, eWEEK
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Features include:
- Advanced security features which screen websites
downloading spyware or "phishing" for your personal
data and pop-up blocker
- Tabbed browsing allowing multiple web pages to be open in
the same browser window
- Spell checker
- Live Bookmarks lets you view Web feeds such as news or blog
headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or menu
- One-Click bookmarking
- Incremental find
- Integrated download manager
- Search system with drop down list of suggestions (works for
Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com)
- Built in session restore, allowing you to return to the
position when Firefox was last closed
- Web Feeds (RSS) integration allowing users to add RSS feeds
to popular RSS readers with a click of the mouse
- Support for DHTML accessibility
- Instant Web Site ID
- Automated updates
- Anti-Phishing and Anti-Malware
- Private browsing
- Easy customization
- Highly extensible with a huge library of themes and
extensions. Extensions add additional functionality to
Firefox, allowing users to do such things as screen captures, gather
RSS feeds and organize information among other things. Includes Add-ons
Manager and a Search Engine Manager
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Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
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included in that section.
Last Updated Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 09:27 AM EST
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