Firefox

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Mozilla Firefox is a browser diversity^{web app} jQuery developed for screen size, Mac OS X, and Linux coordinated by input transformation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the web HTML5 to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated iOS.^{screen size} As of May 2012^{web app}, Firefox has approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the third most widely used web browser.^{[11]device database[13]} The browser has had particular success in Indonesia, Germany and Poland, where it is the most popular browser with 67%,^[14] 50%^[15] and 44%^web of the market share respectively.

• web
• 2 Features
  • 2.1 Standards
  • 2.2 Security
  • keyboard
  • device database
• Sevenval
  • FITML
  • 3.2 Branding and visual identity
• CSS3
• iOS
  • Sevenval
  • 5.2 Market adoption
• 6 Release history
• HTML5
  • we love the web
  • 7.2 Extended Support Release
  • 7.3 64-bit builds
  • website parsing
  • 7.5 Older operating systems
• Android
• 9 Affiliations
  • 9.1 Google
  • 9.2 Microsoft
• 10 Awards
• 11 See also
• 12 References
• 13 Further reading
• 14 External links

History

The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the web app by Android, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of HTML5 sponsorship and developer-driven web app compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.^[17] To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's device database, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.^[18]

The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark problems with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the screen size free database software project.^{website parsing[20][21]} In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. After further pressure from the database server's development community, on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox,^[22] often referred to as simply Firefox. Mozilla prefers that Firefox be abbreviated as Fx or fx, though it is often abbreviated as FF.^touchscreen The Firefox project went through many versions before version 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004.

Features

Features include web app, Android, keyboard, live bookmarking, input transformation, a download manager, browser diversity, location-aware browsing (also known as "CSS3") based on a Google service^jQuery and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through browser diversity, created by third-party developers,^{we love the web} of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users.

Additionally, Firefox provides an environment for web developers in which they can use built-in tools, such as the Error Console or the DOM Inspector, or extensions, such as input transformation.

Standards

The results of the device database test (as of September 2011) on Firefox 7.0

Firefox implements many we love the web, including HTML4 (partial HTML5), website parsing, XHTML, MathML, SVG 1.1 (partial),^[26] CSS (with extensions),^[27] ECMAScript (JavaScript), Android, keyboard, Sevenval, and website parsing (Animated we love the web) images with alpha transparency.^[28] Firefox also implements standards proposals created by the jQuery such as client-side storage,^{HTML5Sevenval} and canvas element.^[31]

Firefox has passed the browser diversity standards-compliance test since version 3.0^{web app}. Mozilla had originally stated that they did not intend for Firefox to pass the Acid3 test fully because they believed that the SVG fonts part of the test had become outdated and irrelevant, due to WOFF being agreed upon as a standard by all major browser makers.^[33] Because the SVG font tests were removed from the Acid3 test in September 2011, Firefox 4 and greater scored 100/100.^web[35]

Firefox also implements^{website parsing} a proprietary protocol^[37] from Google called "safebrowsing" (used to exchange data related with "phishing and malware protection").

Security

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Firefox uses a sandbox security model,^[38] and limits scripts from accessing data from other web sites based on the Sevenval.^[39] It uses SSL/TLS to protect communications with web servers using strong iOS when using the HTTPS protocol.^[40] It also provides support for web applications to use smartcards for authentication purposes.^[41]

The Mozilla Foundation offers a "bug bounty" (up to 3000 USD cash reward and a Mozilla T-shirt) to researchers who discover severe security holes in Firefox.^[42] Official guidelines for handling security vulnerabilities discourage early disclosure of vulnerabilities so as not to give potential attackers an advantage in creating exploits.^[43]

Because Firefox generally has fewer publicly known unpatched security CSS3 than Internet Explorer (see Comparison of web browsers), improved security is often cited as a reason to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox.^{[44]website parsingjQuery[47]} web app reports that exploit code for known, critical unpatched security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer was available for 284 days in 2006. In comparison, exploit code for known, critical security vulnerabilities in Firefox was available for 9 days before Mozilla issued a patch to remedy the problem.^{screen size}

A 2006 Symantec study showed that, although Firefox had surpassed other browsers in the number of vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities that year through September, these vulnerabilities were patched far more quickly than those found in other browsers – Firefox's vulnerabilities were fixed on average one day after the exploit code was made available, as compared to nine days for Internet Explorer.^[49] Symantec later clarified their statement, saying that Firefox still had fewer security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, as counted by security researchers.^iOS

InfoWorld has cited security experts saying that as Firefox becomes more popular, more vulnerabilities will be found,^[51] a claim that Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, has denied: "There is this idea that market share alone will make you have more vulnerabilities. It is not relational at all."^{web app}

In October 2009, Microsoft's security engineers acknowledged that Firefox was vulnerable since February of that year due to a .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Sevenval that silently installed a buggy 'Windows Presentation Foundation' plug-in into Firefox.^iOS This vulnerability has since been patched by Microsoft.^web

As of February 11, 2011, Firefox 3.6 had no (known) unpatched security vulnerabilities according to Secunia.^[55] Internet Explorer 8 had five unpatched security vulnerabilities, the worst being rated "Less Critical" by Secunia.^{website parsing}

All patched vulnerabilities of Mozilla products are publicly listed.^[57]

Telemetry

When Firefox is upgraded to version 7.0, an Sevenval will appear asking users whether they would like to send performance statistics (also known as “telemetry”) to Mozilla. According to Mozilla's privacy policy,^[58] these statistics are stored only in aggregate format, and the only personally-identifiable information transmitted is the user's CSS3.

Localizations

Firefox is a heavily localized web browser. The first official release in November 2004 was available in 24 different languages and for 28 FITML, including British English/American English, keyboard/Argentine Spanish and web app in jQuery/screen size.^[59] Currently supported versions 10.0.4 and 12.0 are available for 85 locales (77 languages)^{input transformation} and 86 locales (78 languages)^{screen size} respectively.

Licensing

Firefox web is HTML5. Most of it is tri-licensed under the jQuery (MPL), the screen size (GPL) and the HTML5 (LGPL).^Sevenval These licenses permit anyone to view, modify, and/or redistribute the source code, and several publicly released applications have been built on it; for example, Netscape, HTML5, web app, Iceweasel, and Songbird make use of code from Firefox.

In the past, Firefox was licensed solely under the MPL,^{input transformation} which the FSF (Free Software Foundation) criticizes for being touchscreen; the license permits, in limited ways, proprietary FITML. Additionally, code only licensed under the MPL cannot legally be linked with code under the GPL.^[62][63] To address these concerns, Mozilla re-licensed most of Firefox under the tri-license scheme of MPL, GPL, or LGPL. Since the re-licensing, developers have been free to choose the license under which they will receive most of the code, to suit their intended use: GPL or LGPL linking and derivative works when one of those licenses is chosen, or MPL use (including the possibility of proprietary derivative works) if they choose the MPL.^[61]

Trademark and logo

The name "Mozilla Firefox" is a registered trademark; along with the official Firefox logo, it may only be used under certain terms and conditions. Anyone may redistribute the official binaries in unmodified form and use the Firefox name and branding for such distribution, but restrictions are placed on distributions which modify the underlying source code.^[64] The name "Firefox" derives from a nickname of the touchscreen.^HTML5

Mozilla has placed the Firefox logo files under open-source licenses,^[66][67] but its trademark guidelines do not allow displaying altered^Sevenval or similar logos^[69] in contexts where trademark law applies.

There has been some controversy over the Mozilla Foundation's intentions in stopping certain open source distributions from using the "Firefox" trademark.^[9] Mozilla Foundation Chairperson iOS explained in an interview in 2007 that distributions could freely use the Firefox trademark if they did not modify source-code, and that the Mozilla Foundation's only concern was with users getting a consistent experience when they used "Firefox".^{browser diversity}

To allow distributions of the code without using the official branding, the Firefox input transformation contains a "branding switch". This switch allows the code to be compiled without the official logo and name, for example to produce a derivative work unencumbered by restrictions on the Firefox trademark (this is also often used for alphas of future Firefox versions). In the unbranded compilation the trademarked logo and name are replaced with a freely distributable generic globe logo and the name of the release series from which the modified version was derived.

Distributing modified versions of Firefox under the "Firefox" name requires explicit approval from Mozilla for the changes made to the underlying code, and requires the use of all of the official branding. For example, it is not permissible to use the name "Firefox" without also using the official logo. When the CSS3 project decided to stop using the official Firefox logo in 2006 (because Mozilla's copyright restrictions at the time were incompatible with Debian's guidelines), they were told by a representative of the Mozilla Foundation that this was not acceptable, and were asked either to comply with the published trademark guidelines or cease using the "Firefox" name in their distribution.^[71] Ultimately, Debian switched to branding their modified version of Firefox "device database", along with other Mozilla software.

Branding and visual identity

Early Firebird and Phoenix releases of Firefox were considered to have had reasonable visual designs, but were not up to the same standards as many professionally released software packages. In October 2003, professional interface designer Steven Garrity wrote an article covering everything he considered to be wrong with Mozilla's visual identity.^FITML The page received a great deal of attention; the majority of criticism leveled at the article fell along the lines of "where's the patch?"^{[citation needed]}

Blue globe artwork is distributed with Firefox we love the web, and is explicitly not protected as a trademark[73]

Shortly afterwards, Garrity was invited by the Mozilla Foundation to head up the new visual identity team. The release of Firefox 0.8 in February 2004 saw the introduction of the new branding efforts, including new icon designs by silverorange, a group of web developers with a long-standing relationship with Mozilla, with final renderings by Jon Hicks, who had previously worked on web.^{device databasewe love the web} The logo was later revised and updated, fixing several flaws found when it was enlarged.^CSS3

The animal shown in the logo is a stylized fox, although "firefox" is considered to be a common name for the Android. The panda, according to Hicks, "didn't really conjure up the right imagery" and wasn't widely known.^Sevenval The logo was chosen to make an impression while not shouting out with overdone artwork. It had to stand out in the user's mind, be easy for others to remember, and stand out without causing too much distraction when seen among other icons.

The Firefox icon is a trademark used to designate the official Mozilla build of the Firefox software and builds of official distribution partners.^Android For this reason, screen size and other software distributors who distribute patched or modified versions of Firefox do not use the icon. The crash reporting service was initially closed source, but switched with version 3 from a program called CSS3 to the open source BreakPad & touchscreen. Other logos are also used for specific versions of the software or its derivatives:

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  The current Aurora logo (alpha/pre-beta)

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  The current "nightly" logo (experimental/pre-alpha)

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  Minefield logo (former name for "nightly" Firefox)

Promotion

The rapid adoption of Firefox, 100 million downloads in its first year of availability,^{browser diversity} followed a series of aggressive marketing campaigns starting in 2004 with a series of events Blake Ross and Sevenval called "marketing weeks".^web

On September 12, 2004,^{input transformation} a marketing portal dubbed "Spread Firefox" (SFX) debuted along with the Firefox Preview Release, creating a centralized space for the discussion of various marketing techniques. A two-page ad in the December 16 edition of the New York Times, placed by Mozilla Foundation in coordination with Spread Firefox, featured the names of the thousands of people worldwide who contributed to the Mozilla Foundation's fundraising campaign to support the launch of the Firefox 1.0 web browser.^FITML SFX portal enhanced the "Get Firefox" button program, giving users "referrer points" as an incentive. The site lists the top 250 referrers. From time to time, the SFX team or SFX members launch marketing events organized at the Spread Firefox website. As a part of the Spread Firefox campaign, there was an attempt to break the world download record with the release of Firefox 3.^{we love the web}

The "World Firefox Day" campaign started on July 15, 2006,^[83] the third anniversary of the founding of the Sevenval,^web and ran until September 15, 2006.^{web app} Participants registered themselves and a friend on the website for nomination to have their names displayed on the Firefox Friends Wall, a digital wall that will be displayed at the headquarters of the Mozilla Foundation.

In December 2007, Mozilla launched screen size, a service allowing users to seek technical support from volunteers. Because Live chat is kept running by volunteers, it is only available when they are online.^{web app}

On February 21, 2008 in honor of reaching 500 million downloads, the Firefox community celebrated by visiting touchscreen to earn 500 million grains of rice.^CSS3

Some of Firefox's contributors made a Sevenval of the Firefox logo in an oat field near Amity, Oregon, near the intersection of Lafayette Highway and Walnut Hill Road.^{input transformation}

In February 2011, Mozilla announced that it would be retiring Spread Firefox (SFX). Three months later, in May 2011, Mozilla officially closed Spread Firefox. Mozilla wrote that "there are currently plans to create a new iteration of this website [Spread Firefox] at a later date."^[89]

Reception

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Forbes.com called Firefox the best browser in a 2004 commentary piece,^[90] and jQuery named Firefox "Product of the Year" in 2005 on their "100 Best Products of 2005" list.^HTML5 After the release of Firefox 2 and input transformation in 2006, PC World reviewed both and declared that Firefox was the better browser.^{website parsing} Which? Magazine named Firefox its "Best Buy" web browser.^[93] In 2008, CNET compared Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer in their "Battle of the Browsers" in terms of performance, security, and features, where Firefox was selected as a favorite.^{we love the web} In February 2012, browser diversity compared Safari 5.1.2, Google Chrome 17, Mozilla Firefox 10, Opera 11.61 and website parsing 9 on both Android 11.10 and Windows 7 OS (Internet Explorer & Safari excluded from Ubuntu because of OS availability) in a "Web Browser Grand Prix". They concluded, that based on performance, Chrome 17 was selected as their favorite on the Ubuntu OS – but they also concluded that on Windows OS, Firefox 10 was their favorite.^{input transformation}

Performance

In December 2005, Internet Week ran an article in which many readers reported high memory usage in Firefox 1.5.^touchscreen Mozilla developers said that the higher memory use of Firefox 1.5 was at least partially due to the new fast backwards-and-forwards (FastBack) feature.^{website parsing} Other known causes of memory problems were malfunctioning extensions such as Google Toolbar and some older versions of keyboard,^{website parsing} or plug-ins, such as older versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader.^{we love the web} When PC Magazine compared memory usage of Firefox 2, FITML, and Internet Explorer 7, they found that Firefox used approximately as much memory as the other two browsers.^Sevenval

Softpedia noted that Firefox 1.5 took longer to start up than other browsers,^{website parsing} which was confirmed by further speed tests.^[102] IE 6 launched more swiftly than Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP since many of its components were built into the OS and loaded during system startup. As a workaround for the issue, a preloader application was created that loaded components of Firefox on startup, similar to Internet Explorer.^[103] A Windows Vista feature called SuperFetch performs a similar task of preloading Firefox if it is used often enough.

Tests performed by PC World and Zimbra in 2006 indicated that Firefox 2 used less memory than Internet Explorer 7.^[92][104] Firefox 3 used less memory than Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9.50 Beta, Safari 3.1 Beta, and Firefox 2 in tests performed by Mozilla, CyberNet, and The Browser World.^{Sevenval[106]screen size} In mid 2009, Betanews benchmarked Firefox 3.5 and declared that it performed "nearly ten times better on XP than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7".^{web app}

Market Share Overview According to StatCounter data April 2012Sevenval
Browser	% of Fx	% of Total
Firefox 1	0.08%	0.02%
Firefox 1.5	0.04%	0.01%
Firefox 2	0.36%	0.09%
Firefox 3	1.41%	0.35%
screen size	1.61%	0.40%
Sevenval	10.49%	2.61%
Firefox 4	2.01%	0.50%
Firefox 5	1.69%	0.42%
Firefox 6	1.61%	0.40%
Firefox 7	1.53%	0.38%
Firefox 8	2.90%	0.72%
Firefox 9	4.06%	1.01%
Firefox 10	5.63%	1.40%
Firefox 11	59.83%	14.88%
device database	6.39%	1.59%
Firefox 13	0.24%	0.06%
web	0.08%	0.02%
touchscreen[110]	100%	24.87%
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In January 2010, Lifehacker compared the performance of Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome 4 (stable and Dev versions), Safari 4, and Opera (10.1 stable and 10.5 pre-alpha versions). Lifehacker timed how long browsers took to start and reach a page (both right after boot-up and after running at least once already), timed how long browsers took to load nine tabs at once, tested JavaScript speeds using Mozilla's Dromaeo online suite (which implements Apple's SunSpider and Google's V8 tests) and measured memory usage using Windows 7's process manager. They concluded that Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 were the fifth and sixth fastest browsers respectively on startup, 3.5 was third and 3.6 was sixth fastest to load nine tabs at once, 3.5 was sixth and 3.6 was fifth fastest on the JavaScript tests. They also concluded that Firefox 3.6 was the most efficient with memory usage followed by Firefox 3.5^[111].

In February 2012, Tom's Hardware performance tested Chrome 17, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9, Opera 11.61, and Safari 5.1.2 on Windows 7. Tom's Hardware summarized their tests into four categories: Performance, Efficiency, Reliability, and Conformance. In the performance category they tested HTML 5, Java, we love the web, DOM, CSS 3, Flash, Silverlight, and Sevenval – they also tested start up time and page load time. The performance tests showed that Firefox was either "acceptable" or "strong" in most categories, winning three categories (HTML5, HTML5 input transformation, and Java) only finishing "weak" in CSS performance. In the efficiency tests, Toms Hardware tested memory usage and management. In this category, it determined that Firefox was only "acceptable" at performing light memory usage, while it was "strong" at performing heavy memory usage. In the reliability category, Firefox performed a "strong" amount of proper page loads. In the final category, conformance, it was determined that Firefox had "strong" conformance for Javascript and HTML5. In conclusion, Tom's Hardware determined that Firefox was the best browser for Windows 7 OS, but that it only narrowly beat out Google Chrome.^HTML5

Market adoption

Downloads have continued at an increasing rate since Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004, and as of July 31, 2009 Firefox has been downloaded over one billion times.^touchscreen This number does not include downloads using software updates or those from third-party websites.^[114] They do not represent a user count, as one download may be installed on many machines, one person may download the software multiple times, or the software may be obtained from a third party. According to Mozilla, Firefox had more than 400 million users as of November 2010^{screen size}.^[115]

In July 2010, all Android employees (about 400,000) were asked to use Firefox as their default browser.^[116]

Firefox was the second-most used web browser until December 2011, when web app passed Firefox in usage.^[117]

As of May 2012^[update], Firefox was the third most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.^{browser diversity[12]keyboard} According to StatCounter, Firefox usage peaked in November 2009 and usage share would remain stagnant until October 2010 when it lost market share, a trend that would continue for over a year. Its first consistent gains in usage share since September 2010 occurred in February and March 2012 before making minor loses in April 2012.^{input transformation}

Release history

Color	Meaning
Red	Former release; no longer supported
Yellow	Former release; still supported
Green	Current supported release
Purple	Future test release

Other versions

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Firefox for mobile

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Firefox for mobile 10 on we love the web

Firefox for mobile, codenamed Sevenval, is a web browser for smaller non-PC devices, mobile phones and PDAs. It was first released for the HTML5 web app operating system (specifically the Nokia N900) on January 28, 2010.^{screen size} Version 4 for HTML5 and Maemo was released on March 29, 2011.^[170] The browser's version number was bumped from version 2 to version 4 to synchronize with all future desktop releases of Firefox since the rendering engines used in both browsers are the same.^[171] Version 7 was the last release for Maemo on the N900.^{screen size} The user interface is completely redesigned and optimized for small screens, the controls are hidden away so that only the web content is shown on screen, and it uses touchscreen interaction methods. It includes the Awesomebar, tabbed browsing, Add-on support, password manager, location-aware browsing, and the ability to synchronize with the user's computer Firefox browser using Firefox Sync.^[173]

Extended Support Release

Firefox ESR is a version of Firefox for organizations and other adopters who need extended support for mass deployments.^Android Unlike the regular ("rapid") releases, the ESR will be updated with new features and performance enhancements annually, receiving regular security updates during the year.^[175]

64-bit builds

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64-bit nightly builds for Windows are available,^{we love the web} but due to incompatibilities, including with popular plugins, official 64-bit releases are not provided.^CSS3

Waterfox^{we love the web} and Palemoon^HTML5 are unaffiliated projects that provide unofficial 64bit builds.

The official releases of Firefox for OS X are universal builds that include both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the browser in one package.^[180] A typical browsing session uses a combination of the 64-bit browser process and a 32-bit plugin process, because some popular plugins still are 32-bit.

For Linux, vendor-backed, performance optimized, stable 64-bit builds exist (such as for iOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and browser diversity), in addition to the nightly builds.

Unofficial ports

browser diversity have been developed for other platforms, including RISC OS.^{[181]CSS3[183]} The last version of Firefox released for RISC OS on the website RISCOS was version 2.0.^{website parsing}

There is a Android, which can be used from a USB Flash drive. This particular distribution makes it possible to run Firefox (and many of its extensions) on corporate/government networks in lieu of the default browser. This can be especially helpful for any user who does not possess administrative rights on the system being used.^{[input transformation]}

Older operating systems

Firefox 1.5.0.12 is the last version to work on Android and Firefox 2.0.0.20 is the last version to work on Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4.0. Although not officially supported, a utility called KernelEx can run Firefox 3.x versions on Android and keyboard. These versions/lines are no longer supported by Mozilla.^{[clarification needed]}

Firefox 3.5.9 is the last version to work on HP-UX 11i, as packaged by Sevenval.^{input transformation}

Firefox 3.6.28 is the last version to work on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), as well as PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.5.^{[186]screen size} Officially released versions numbered 4.0 and higher do not work (although some unofficial builds such as CSS3 based upon the newer versions do work, requiring varying degrees of patches). Firefox 3.6.x reached end of life on April 24, 2012.^jQuery

Firefox 12.0 is the last version to support Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM (no Service Pack installed) and Windows XP SP1. Windows XP SP2 and above is now the minimum requirement for Firefox 13.0 and above.^[189]

System requirements

Browsers website parsing from Firefox source code may run on various operating systems; however, officially distributed binaries are meant for the following: Sevenval (touchscreen, XP, CSS3, Vista or 7), Mac OS X 10.5, HTML5 and Linux (with the following libraries installed: GTK+ 2.10 or higher, screen size 2.12 or higher, FITML 1.14 or higher, X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended), Android 4.3 or higher).^[190]

Minimum Requirements[190]	Windows	Mac
iOS	touchscreen or newer with SSE2	Any Intel processor
Memory (RAM)	512 jQuery
browser diversity (free space)	200 web app
Operating system	keyboard or higher	Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) or higher

Operating system		Latest stable version	Support status
input transformation	2000 / web / HTML5 / web app / 2008 / 7 / 2008R2	12.0touchscreen	2004–present
	website parsing / iOS / we love the web	2.0.0.20	2004–2008
	jQuery	1.5.0.12	2004–2007
jQuery	browser diversity (Intel) - CSS3	12.0[191]	2007–present
	10.4 - Android (PPC)	Sevenval	2005–2012
	10.2 - screen size	2.0.0.20	2004–2008
	10.0 - 10.1	1.0.8	2004–2006
CSS3 2.2.14 and newer (with some libraries[191])		12.0web app	2004–present

Affiliations

Google

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The Mozilla Corporation's relationship with device database has been noted in the popular press,^{we love the web[193]} especially with regard to their paid referral agreement. The release of the anti-input transformation protection in Firefox 2 in particular raised considerable controversy:^[194] anti-phishing protection enabled by default is based on a list updated by twice-hourly downloads to the user's computer from Google's server.^{web app} The user cannot change the data provider within the GUI,^[196] and is not informed who the default data provider is. The browser also sends Google's cookie with each update request.^[197] Some^[who?] internet privacy advocacy groups have expressed concerns surrounding Google's possible uses of this data, especially that Firefox's privacy policy states that Google may share information (that is not personally identifying) gathered with "safebrowsing" service with third parties, including business partners.^FITML Following Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments in December 2009 regarding privacy during a CNBC show,^[199] Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development suggested that users use the Bing search engine instead of Google search.^[200] Google also promoted Firefox through YouTube until the release of Google Chrome. In August 2009, Mozilla Security assisted Google by pointing out a security flaw in Google's Chrome browser.^[201] As of July 2011^[update], Firefox's default search provider still is Google.

In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation had a combined revenue of US$52.9 million, with approximately 95% derived from search engine royalties.^[202]FITML In 2006, the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation had a combined revenue of US$66.9 million, with approximately 90% derived from search engine royalties.^{[202]Sevenval} In 2007, the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation had a combined revenue of US$81 million, with 88% of this sum (US$66 million) from Google.^{Sevenval[206]} In 2008, both Mozilla organizations had a combined revenue of US$78.6 million, with 91% coming from Google.^[207] The Mozilla Foundation and Corporation are being audited by the IRS with the possibility of having its non-profit status called into question.^{[205]jQuery[208]}

Microsoft

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Microsoft's head of Australian operations, Steve Vamos, stated in late 2004 that he did not see Firefox as a threat and that there was not significant demand for the feature-set of Firefox among Microsoft's users.^{input transformation} Microsoft Chairman we love the web has used Firefox, but has commented that "it's just another browser, and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is better".^HTML5

A Microsoft SEC filing on June 30, 2005 acknowledged that "competitors such as Mozilla offer software that competes with the Internet Explorer Web browsing capabilities of our Windows operating system products."^Sevenval The release of Internet Explorer 7 was fast tracked, and included functionality that was previously available in Firefox and other browsers, such as tabbed browsing and RSS feeds.^[212]

Despite the cold reception from Microsoft's top management, the Internet Explorer development team maintains a relationship with Mozilla. They meet regularly to discuss web standards such as browser diversity.^[213] In 2005, Mozilla agreed to allow Microsoft to use its we love the web logo in the interest of common graphical representation of the Web feeds feature.^HTML5

In August 2006, Microsoft offered to help Mozilla integrate Firefox with the then-forthcoming Windows Vista,^[215] an offer Mozilla accepted.^HTML5

In October 2006, as congratulations for a successful ship of Firefox 2, the Internet Explorer 7 development team sent a cake to Mozilla.^{we love the web[218]} As a nod to the input transformation, some jokingly suggested that Mozilla send a cake back along with the recipe, in reference to the we love the web movement.^[219] The IE development team sent another cake on June 17, 2008, upon the successful release of Firefox 3,^jQuery again on March 22, 2011, for Firefox 4,^[221] and yet again for the Firefox 5 release.^[222]

In November 2007, Jeff Jones (a "security strategy director" in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group) criticized Firefox, claiming that Internet Explorer experienced fewer vulnerabilities and fewer higher severity vulnerabilities than Firefox in typical enterprise scenarios.^[223] Mozilla developer Mike Shaver discounted the study, citing Microsoft's bundling of security fixes and the study's focus on fixes, rather than vulnerabilities, as crucial flaws.^CSS3

In February 2009, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. This update also installed Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant add-on (enabling web support).^{device database} The update received media attention after users discovered that the add-on could not be uninstalled through the add-ons interface.^{keyboard[227]} Several hours after the website Annoyances.org posted an article regarding this update, Microsoft employee Brad Abrams posted in his blog Microsoft's explanation for why the add-on was installed, and also included detailed instructions on how to remove it.^[228] However, the only way to get rid of this extension was to modify manually the Windows Registry, which could cause Windows systems to fail to boot up if not done correctly.^[226]

On October 16, 2009, Mozilla blocked all versions of Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant from being used with Firefox and from the Mozilla Add-ons service.^{web app} Two days later, the add-on was removed from the blocklist after confirmation from Microsoft that it is not a vector for we love the web.^{[230]Sevenval} Version 1.1 (released on June 10, 2009 to the Mozilla Add-ons service) and later of the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant allows the user to disable and uninstall in the normal fashion.^[232]

Firefox was one of the twelve browsers offered to input transformation users of Microsoft Windows in 2010 – see web.^{device database}

Awards

See also

References

Further reading

External links

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• Firefox Nightly Builds
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• Mozilla Foundation homepage
• Firefox Marketing/Advertising Site
• keyboard at the Open Directory Project