Mozilla Firefox is a versatile and feature-rich open source browser that’s good for both casual browsing and intensive research.
Mozilla Firefox syncs your favorite sites, browser history, passwords and settings across all the devices you use it on.
Firefox’s interface is well organized, uncluttered and intuitive, which makes navigation simple.
Key Features
- Tabbed browsing.
- Spell checking.
- Incremental search.
- Live bookmarking.
- Smart Bookmarks.
- Download manager.
- Private browsing – blocks online trackers while you browse and won’t remember your history after you’re done.
- Tracking protection.
- Location-aware browsing.
- Integrated search system.
- Extensions – thousands of extensions are available.
- Themes – personalize the web browser to your preferences.
- Synchronise all your devices with a Firefox Account.
- Toolbar.
- Implements many web standards, including HTML4 (almost full HTML5), XML, XHTML, MathML, SVG 2 (partial), CSS (with extensions), ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, XSLT, XPath, and APNG (Animated PNG) images with alpha transparency.
- Environment for developers such as Error Console / DOM Inspector.
- Cross-platform support – runs under a wide range of operating systems.
Website: www.firefox.com
Support: Help
Developer: Mozilla Foundation and its contributors
License: MPL 2.0
Related Software
| Web Browsers | |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome | Secure web browser with minimalistic user interface |
| Firefox | Highly popular browser delivering safe, easy web browsing |
| ungoogled-chromium | Chromium without Google web services |
| Chromium | Open-source project behind Google Chrome |
| Opera | Popular graphical web browser and Internet suite |
| Vivaldi | Designed for staunch technologists and former Opera browser users |
| Tor Browser | Protect against tracking, surveillance, and censorship |
| Waterfox | Fast and privacy conscious web browser powered by Gecko, |
| Pale Moon | Goanna-based web browser |
| Konqueror | KDE's advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Discovered a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form. |