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Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors. Firefox, officially abbreviated as Fx or fx and popularly abbreviated FF,started as a fork of the Navigator browser component of the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship product of the Mozilla project, under the direction of the Mozilla Foundation.

Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing 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, SkyOS, BeOS and more recently, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Firefox's source code is freely available under the terms of the Mozilla tri-license as free and open source software.

The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

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Average user rating from: 1 user(s)

Overall rating
4.8
Installation
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Compatibility
4.0
Stability
5.0
 

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Superior Alternative to IE, Monday, 05 March 2007

Written by Ken

Overall rating
4.8
Installation
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Compatibility
4.0
Stability
5.0
For some time now Firefox has been a superior alternative to IE. Even with the release of IE7, I use Firefox as my primary browser and it works flawlessly on 99% of web sites I visit.

Originally, I switched from IE because of security concerns. IE has always had security flaws that are primarily the result of Microsoft's support of the ill conceived ActiveX. Before Firefox, the choice was either locked IE down so tight it didn't work or leave the door open for malware. With Firefox, security is much tighter and functionality is pretty well maintained.

One great feature that was introduces in Firefox is tabbed browsing. IE7 does have this feature but I still prefer the Firefox implementation. Firefox also has a built-in download manager. Both of these features can be even better by installing some of the numerous extensions available on the Firefox web site. In fact, there is a plethora of great free extensions that really enhance the browser.

The only possible downside is the fact that there are still a few web sites that rely on ActiveX which is only supported by IE. For now, this means that you will probably need a copy of IE installed on your box.
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