Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As of September 2011, Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers. The browser has had particular success in Germany and Poland, where it is the most popular browser with 51% usage and 46% respectively.To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.

What is Firefox?

Firefox is a browser that more and more people are using instead of Internet Explorer or AOL. It is free, and was created by Mozilla.org, the original creators of the Netscape browser. Firefox was officially released in November 2004. It’s popularity is increasing rapidly, with over 200+ million downloads so far.

What is the history of Firefox?

The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed 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 stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.

The Firefox project went through many versions before 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. After a series of stability and security fixes, the Mozilla Foundation released its first major update, Firefox version 1.5, on November 29, 2005. Firefox 1.5.0.12 is the final version officially supported under Windows 95.

Now Firefox 7, released September 27, 2011, uses as much as 50% less memory than Firefox 4 as a result of the MemShrink project to reduce Firefox memory usage. Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1 is currently the latest stable release.

My browser seems fine to me. Why use Firefox?

Firefox has many built-in features that are not available with older browsers, such as:

• Popup Blocking – Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with Firefox’s built in popup blocker.
• Tabbed Browsing – View more than one web page in a single window with this time saving feature. Open links in the background so that they’re ready for viewing when you’re ready to read them.
• Privacy and Security – Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your online activity your business.
• Smarter Search – Google Search is built right into the toolbar, and there is a plethora of other search tools including Smart Keywords (type “dict <word>” in the Location bar), and the new Find bar (which finds text as you type without covering up anything).

What does Firefox look like?

Firefox looks similar to other browsers. One major difference is the tabs. Each site opens in a different tab. To switch between sites, just click the tab. Tabs can save lots of time since the pages don’t have to be re-loaded. There are many options for setting up tabs, including opening all your favorite sites automatically when you start your browser.
Is it hard to switch to Firefox?
No! Simple and intuitive, yet fully featured, Firefox has all the functions you’re used to – Bookmarks, History, Full Screen, Text Zooming to make pages with small text easier to read, etc.

Setup’s a Snap! At only 8MB (Windows), Firefox takes just a few minutes to download over a slow connection and seconds over a fast connection. The installer gets you set up quickly, and the new Easy Transition system imports all of your settings – Favorites, passwords and other data from Internet Explorer and other browsers – so you can start surfing right away.

What about more advanced features?
Firefox has many features for people who want more from their browser, such as:

• Live Bookmarks – RSS integration lets you read the latest news headlines and read updates to your favorite sites that are syndicated.
• Hassle-Free Downloading – Files you download are automatically saved to your Desktop so they’re easy to find. Fewer prompts mean files download quicker.
• S, M, L or XL—It’s Your Choice – Firefox is the most customizable browser on the planet. Customize your toolbars to add additional buttons, install new Extensions that add new features, add new Themes to browse with style, and use the adaptive search system to allow you to search an infinite number of engines. Firefox is as big or small as you want.
• A Developer’s Best Friend – Firefox comes with a standard set of developer tools including a powerful JavaScript and CSS error/warning console, and an optional Document Inspector that gives detailed insight about your pages.

Some parts of this post were originally published on the mozilla.org website. Used with permission:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing/website-markup.html

Thank you     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History

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Top 10 technology

 We spend a lot of time here exposing you to the gadgets and technologies out there already making your life easier and more interesting “today.” But the truth is, behind the scenes, our favorite pastime is actually sniffing around for those gadgets still in the idea phase. We’re constantly searching for these electronic monstrosities so far ahead of their time that only concept designers dare tackle giving such products a face and a name. After the jump, take a peek into our future fetish and 10 nonexistent – but awesome – tech toys that take our gadget lust to a more advanced level.

10. Dattoos: Interactive Tattoos
No one brings concept design to reality like Frog Design. Winners of numerous design awards over the years, Frog has become synonymous with powerful technology meeting artistic design. So when we found Frog’s Dattoo (interactive tattoo) concept, it was like finding futurist gold. Designed by Hartmut Esslinger, Dattoos would conceivably bring us to that final convergence of man and machine. The Dattoos would offer: DNA-reader and identification technology, nanosensors and interactive “touch reading,” full voice interaction, bionic nano chips and various cybernetic components. While Dattoos would definitely look cool, what Esslinger is imagining here is nothing short of the Borg. But hey, who said being a mindless drone working within a hive mind had to be drab?

9. Astrium Spaceplane

The race to full-on space tourism is in full swing, but we’re still in the early stages of the industry, so naturally style and comfort has taken a backseat to safety and practicality. The Astrium Spaceplane looks to up the ante and allow spacefaring travelers the opportunity to look into infinity whilst nestled in comfortable and familiar surroundings. Australian designer Marc Newson’s concept vehicle doesn’t propel passengers into a far-out science-fiction realm, but if the near term of space tourism really looks like this the spaceports will likely be jam-packed and delayed like your favorite local commercial airport in no time.

8. Custom Kicks
Sneaker culture has transcended the world of fashion and transformed into an art form unto itself. Brand loyalty and price-tag importance has fallen by the wayside as pure originality and exclusive design have become the mark of a true sneaker aficionado. But nowadays, finding one of those unseen designs has become even more difficult. Enter Custom Kicks, a concept designed by the Inventables studio. Custom Kicks would allow wearers to instantly change the design of their shoes on the fly with a mere push of a button. Using a tiny iPod-like device, sneaker fanatics would beam a new pre-designed pattern to their feet and immediately up the ante on the fashion wars. We want this yesterday.

7. Nikon 360
In Star Trek: Voyager and Deep Space Nine, characters used a holographic camera to snap instant three-dimensional replicas of certain moments in time. We’re not quite there yet, but in the meantime the idea behind the Nikon 360 concept camera seems like a reasonable facsimile. According to Ye Chen, designer of the device, the camera would take an all-round picture using a built-in inclinometer indicating the horizontal position prior to execution. Sure, panoramic photos are already in existence, but they take a little more work. With the Nikon 360, capturing surround-vision images would become literally a snap.

6. Honda Cub Motocycle
Sam Jibert’s Honda Cub Motocycle concept vehicle takes the macho out of the road hog and adds just enough clean design and geek friendliness to ensure a consumer hit. Looking like a cross between a 19th-century bicycle and a modern-day crotch rocket, the Honda Cub Motocycle is not only cute but enviro-friendly since it uses a hydrogen fuel cell. If Dean Kamen’s Segway had been this cool-looking, maybe Steve Jobs’ initial prediction that it would change the way cities were built would have come true.

5. Pills To Go
British designer Priestman Goode has envisioned a product so simple and practical, it’s astounding to think that this isn’t already available. Pills To Go combines two caplets of your favorite medicinal salve with a hearty gulp of water all in one package. So simple, so convenient, yet as of now, still a futuristic concept. When eventually brought to market by some company – and you can rest assured that it will definitely happen – Pills To Go is sure to be one of the biggest sellers of all time.

4. WPA Wearable Power Suit
Vlady Spetkovsky designed the WPA wearable power suit as a project for the Bezalel Academy of art and design in Israel. Although Spetkovsky doesn’t offer much detail regarding what the suit would actually do, after watching his animated 3D movie showing the suit in action it’s reasonable to assume that it would increase the strength and speed of the wearer via an accumulator-powered exoskeleton. That’s right friends, with suits like this, one day we’ll all get to live out our superhero fantasies.

3. B-Membrain Computer
The B-Membrain won’t transport you into another dimension or suddenly become self-aware and declare that all humans are obsolete, but it does offer something we can all relate to: sexy hardware. Winner of Intel Korea’s recent PC Design Contest (Challenger category), the B-Membrain does away with the computer monitor and instead beams images to any surface via a built-in projector. As for input, the keyboard is described by its designer Won-Suk Lee as a touchscreen interface. Sure, the B-Membrain looks weird and you’d probably have trouble figuring out where to put to the oddly shaped contraption, but never has a more sci-fi-ish computer been so within reach.

2. Credit Card of the Future
Paying bills will never be fun, but in the future there’s a chance that you’ll at least be able to pay the piper in style. To that end, designer Jacob Palmborg mocked up a universal payment device that simultaneously links to all of your banking and credit accounts. The unnamed device would keep a real-time accounting of just how much you’ve spent, and what your near-term financial forecast looks like based on recent purchase activity. And if that’s not Big Brother enough for you, the device would only be accessible via biometric (think thumbprint, eyescan, etc.) verification. With RFID tap-and-pay bankcards already being used throughout the U.S., it seems like this little gadget’s emergence is just a matter of time.

1. Timeflex Stick-On Watch
It’s been awhile since a cross-demographic product has swept the country, but something like the Timeflex stick-on watch might just do the trick. Imagined as a non-permanent, self-gumming timepiece, the Timeflex would make the perfect accessory for style-conscious millennials (read: teens), on-the-go professionals, and athletes (swimmers, rock climbers, runners, etc.). The outlines of the device are meant to be fluorescent, with the interior sporting a transparent surface so you can show off your fashion-forward sensibility, and a little skin in process.

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