| What is Mozilla Firefox ?
Mozilla Firefox is a
free, open source, cross platform, graphical web browser developed
by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. Beginning as
a fork of the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite,
Mozilla Firefox has since become the 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 1.0 release, Mozilla Fire fox 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 the initial 1.0 release, Mozilla Firefox became one of the
most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among
home users. On October 19, 2005, Mozilla Firefox had its 100
millionth download, less than 1 year (just 344 days) after the
release of version 1.0. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 was released on November
29, 2005, with more than 2 million downloads within the first 36
hours. Now Fire Fox version 2.0 is relaeased.
Download
Firefox, which includes an integrated pop up blocker, tabbed
browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an
extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other
browsers have some of these features, Fire fox became the first such
browser to include them all and achieve wide
adoption.
Mozilla 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. This is the
main stumbling block for competing browsers as many novice users are
still unaware of alternatives.
The development of Mozilla
Firefox 2.0 is now complete. All Mozilla Firefox branding, including
icons, was removed to discourage end-users from downloading it. The
release timeframe for Firefox 3.0 is first quarter 2007.
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Downloading and
Installing..
System
Requirements
Before installing, make sure your computer meets
the system requirements. Starting with Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Mac OS X
PowerPC users must have Mac OS X 10.2 or
greater.
Downloading Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla.com
provides Firefox for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of
languages. To get Mozilla Firefox download it here.
Installing Mozilla
Firefox
Once you have downloaded Firefox, Double click the
Download Firefox Setup installer to start the
install.
Uninstalling
Mozilla Firefox..
To uninstall Mozilla
Firefox, Firstly from the Start menu, choose Control Panel. When the
Control Panel appears, double click Add/Remove Programs. Find
"Download Firefox" in the list and click Remove to
uninstall.
These instructions leave your profile in place in
case you install Firefox again in the future. If you wish to remove
your profile folder, remove the location described below in the
"Profile Folder" section. Note that by doing this you are destroying
all of your Bookmarks, saved passwords, settings and other
information and should you decide to use Fire fox again you will be
starting with a clean profile.
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