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Mozilla Firefox is a web browser, gopher client and FTP client project descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 16.80% of the recorded market share... More

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LICENSE : mozilla public license v1.0
Gnu Lesser General Public License (lgpl) : Gnu General Public License (gpl : LATEST VERSION : 3.0.1

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Extraordinarily Good Browser

by Abhinav Bakshi on April 23rd 2008 at 08:14 PM

I am using this for the last 3 years, never had any BIG issue with firefox but yeah sometimes you feel IE is better choice & in the next thought you say" no man, firefox is the coolest browser in the world...why i am comparing this to IE (inter-Bug explorer, lol)...."

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Faster Response

Tab Browsing

Popup Blocking

Cleaner Interface

Open Source Advantage

Searching for bads....

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Great But Deteriorating

by Daylon Jackson on February 19th 2008 at 10:51 PM

They have managed to take 15% of the market and security is definitely a big (probably, the biggest) benefit. But it tends to be slow at times as compared to IE. It has been crashing a lot more of late but that might just be a hardware problem on my 3 year old laptop...

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Works Like A Charm

by John Kite on September 14th 2007 at 03:34 PM

This is W-a-y better than Internet Explorer for several reasons: 1) I have stopped using adware/spyware software since I started using Firefox. It doesn't download things behind my back. If a page is trying to load something (like, say, iTunes), I get a readable warning. 2) There are a ton of neat plugins that you can find from the mozilla.org site. 3) There are minor niceties like themes that you can use to customize your 'look and feel'. 4) A lot of new features being developed very rapidly, so they seem to be far ahead of IE, including IE 7. Cons: 1) One of the downsides is that on windows, firefox runs as a single process. So, if one page hangs the browser (e.g. bad ajax call or something), ALL windows freeze up. In general, however, this works very well. 2) There are still some sites that do not render well on Firefox. Firefox is MORE standards compliant, but some sites do not open up well in Firefox.

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OStatic Buffer Overflow...

by Sam Dean on Aug 10, 2009

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Google Chrome: One Year Later

by Sam Dean on Aug 07, 2009

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September is almost upon us, and it will mark the first anniversary of Google's Chrome browser. The very first post I ever wrote on Chrome appeared on September 1st of last year, and I can remember the initial thoughts that came to mind when I considered its prospects: Won't it require extensions, like the great ones available for Firefox, to succeed? What kinds of resources will be available for customizing it? What it will mean in terms of the substantial financial support that Google gives to Mozilla Firefox? Will it be cross-platform?

Almost a year after the arrival of Chrome, it's doing reasonably well, although not shaking the Earth. Net Application's latest browser market share data shows Chrome at 2.6 percent of the market, and growing, not far behind Safari's share of 4.1 percent. I continue to believe, though, that an ecosystem of useful extensions, and good versions of Chrome for the Mac and Linux, are essential for its long-term success. On that last front, there is good news emerging.

5 Free Online Open Source Books for Beginners

by Sam Dean on Aug 05, 2009

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Lack of adequate documentation is frequently cited as a shortcoming of open source applications and platforms, but, for the popular choices, there are surprisingly good, free online books available. We round these up on a regular basis here at OStatic, and in this post you'll find five online books that you can jump right into. They introduce basic concepts for getting started with Linux, Firefox, Blender (3D graphics and animation), GIMP (graphics), and the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications.