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Description
Mozilla Firefox - a fast, redesign of the Mozilla browser
Features
Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.
It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.
Features of Mozilla Firefox:
· comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop;
· a tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on;
· integrated search (powered by Google);
· industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing;
· simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively;
· a streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable;
· a large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser.
What's New in This Release:
· Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
· Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
· Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
· Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
· Improvements to popup blocking.
· Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
· Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
· Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
· Better accessibility support including DHTML accessibility.
· Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
· Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
· New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
· Many security enhancements.
· List of notable bug fixes since Deer Park Alpha 2.
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