Features of Firefox

Salient features of Firefox

1. Firefox 1.5

   • Tabbed browsing improvements
   • Site-specific options
   • Extension system enhancements
   • Updated browser appearance, including an improved default theme
   • Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search enhancements
   • Accessibility compliance
   • Session Restore
   • Download resuming across browser sessions, detection of signed executables
   • Improvements to the search service
   • Anti-phishing features
   • Cairo as the rendering layer instead of GDI+

2. Firefox 2.0

   • New Windows installer using the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
   • New anti-phishing features
   • Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behaviour is slightly different
   • A History of recently closed tabs / Ability to "Undo" closed tabs
   • Automatic restoration of the user's browsing session if there is a crash
   • Inline spell checking in text boxes
   • Search suggestions now appear in the search box auto-complete for Google and Yahoo!
   • New search service that supports Sherlock and OpenSearch engines
   • Combining the extensions and themes managers into an "Add-ons" manager
   • Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
   • New search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
   • Improved support for previewing and subscribing to Web feeds (see RSS)
   • New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
   • Searching in input fields
   • Support for scalable vector graphics (SVG) text using svg:textPath
   • Client-side session and persistent storage

Firefox Toolbar

Firefox Toolbar

You can download Firefox Toolbar from this site or any of the below sites: The toolbar of respected companies have their own set of features to support their site's quick browsing. Some of these(toolbars) also include Popup blockers, search engines eg: A9 toolbar, Google, Yahoo! Toolbars. We recommend you download latest version of Firefox along with Google toolbar if you don't have one from the links shown on our site navigation side bar.

http://www.amazon.com - A9 Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox

http://toolbar.ebay.com - Ebay Toolbar

http://toolbar.yahoo.com - Yahoo! Toolbar

http://services.google.com/toolbar/firefox/ - Google toolbar for Firefox

Spread Firefox Campaigns

Spread Firefox Campaigns

The adoption of Firefox has increased due aggressive marketing campaigns since 2004. eg: Blake Ross and Asa Dotzler organized "marketing week" for promoting Firefox.

On September 14, 2004, a PR portal named "Spread Firefox" (SpreadFirefox.com) (SFX) was launched. This portal brought innovative idea of "Get Firefox" button program, which are run accross thousands of affiliate sites and the users/affiliates are given "referrer points" as an incentive. This site also lists the top 250 referrers.

THe SFX events are also held from time to time by site marketing team to boost the firefox popularity.

Firefox's Market Share

Firefox's Market Share

Firefox's market share is increasing day by day due to agressive marketing campaign and media hype. Major industrial players have adopted it as their official web browser. eg: According to a latest CNET.com's report IBM's 30000 staff(almost 10% of total staff) already uses Firefox; besides that, IBM also encourages the use of Firefox as their standard Browser.

Google also has released various extensions for Firefox showing interest in it. It also recommends Firefox for its premier weblog service Blogger.com, and its newly launched free hosting service, Googlepages.com

Search Engines like Yahoo!, A9.com, Google have released toolbar extension for Firefox and also have shown special interests in developing more extension s for firefox.

Institutions like: University of Chicago, Yale University, Boston College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Kansas State University have recently adopted Firefox as official web browsers across the campus network. Rutgers University and Penn State University have installed Firefox on lab computers in most of its branch campuses and some labs in State College.

Moreover, Netscape has launched its new version of famous web browser Netscape navigator 8 based on Firefox and MSIE(MS Internet Explorer).

Firefox today holds the market share of 20 % approx of Browsers on Internet. According to a report 120 million of the 1 Billion web users use Firefox. In Europe this share is 37%.

Books on Firefox

Books on Firefox

• Granneman, Scott (2005). "Don't Click on the Blue E!: Switching to Firefox". O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00939-9.
• Hofmann, Chris; Marcia Knous, & John Hedtke (2005). "Firefox and Thunderbird Garage". Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0131870041.
• McFarlane, Nigel (2005). "Firefox Hacks". O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00928-3.
• Reyes, Mel (2005). "Hacking Firefox : More Than 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations". Wiley. ISBN 0-7645-9650-0.
• Ross, Blake (2006). "Firefox for Dummies". Wiley. ISBN 0-471-74899-4.
• Yeow, Cheah Chu (2005). "Firefox Secrets: A Need-To-Know Guide". O'Reilly. ISBN 0-9752402-4-2.

Firefox

Firefox is licensed and mantained by Mozilla corporation/Mozilla Foundation.

Firefox Snipets

1. Latest Version(Stable release): 1.5.0.6 (Source: Mozilla, Getfirefox.com)
2. Alpha/Preview Release: 2.0b1/ Minefield 3.0a1
3. OS: Cross platform
4. License: MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
5. Original Trademark Owner: Firefox Ltd.(Firefox.com, Firefox.co.uk)
   Mozilla Foundation has licensed the trademark from the above mentioned ecommerce service provider, Firefox Ltd, UK.
6. Use/Application type: Web browser
7. Related Sites:
   • http://firefox.com - Donated by Qualish Corp to Mozilla Foundation for Firefox users.
   • http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/- Mozilla homepage for end users
   • http://getfirefox.com- Firefox Downloads Site.
   • http://services.google.com/toolbar/firefox/ - Google toolbar for Firefox
   • http://spreadfirefox.com - Firefox popularity and circulation campaign. Affiliate webmasters are given points for helping circulate Firefox Among their site audiences.
   • http://download-firefox.org - Firefox Downloads Site
   • http://switch2firefox.com - Reasons to use or switch to firefox .
   • http://firefox.co.uk - Website of original trademark owner.
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox - Wikipedia's Firefox reference.
   • http://firefoxinstall.com - Firefox Download Site
   • http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - Firefox
   • http://firefoxtoolbox.com - Download Firefox with Google Toolbar - Blocks Popups etc.
   • http://www.downloadfirefox.net
   • http://www.get-firefox-now.com
   • http://www.amazon.com - A9 Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox
   • http://toolbar.ebay.com - Ebay Toolbar
   • http://toolbar.yahoo.com - Yahoo! Toolbar
8. Competitors:
   • Microsoft IE
   • Netscape Navigator
   • Opera
   • Apple Safari
   • Avant Browser
   • Sea Monkey - Formerly in Mozilla Suite of earlier browser than Firefox was released
   • Many more...