Mozilla Firefox, a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and tested by a large community of external contributors has been picking up steam for quite a while now. The official abbreviation for Firefox is Fx or fx, also popularly abbreviated FF, started as a fork of the Navigator browser component of the Mozilla Application Suite. Since then, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship product of the Mozilla project, under the direction of the Mozilla Foundation.

Due to Firefox uniqueness as a cross-platform browser, the browser provides support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. However, the source code has been unofficially ported to other operating systems, including FreeBSD, OS/2, Solaris, RISC OS, SkyOS, BeOS and more recently, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The current stable release of Firefox is version 2.0.0.6, released on July 30, 2007.

Features

Firefox is a browser’s dream because it has many features including tabbed browsing, spell checker, incremental find (via the Find toolbar), Live bookmarking, an integrated download manager, and a search system that includes Google. The user can further customize Firefox with downloadable extensions, and themes. Firefox developers aim to produce a browser that “just surfs the web” and delivers the “best possible browsing experience to the widest possible set of people.” Firefox provides an environment for web developers in which they can use built-in tools or extensions. These include the built-in JavaScript Console and the DOM Inspector. One of the most popular features of Firefox is its support for add-ons. These include not only Themes for the browser, but also extensions like Source Editor, Grease Monkey, and IE Tab which make special tasks easier, and improve browsing experience

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