Firemonger is a community-run project with a goal of developing a multilingual easy-to-use compilation CD with Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, and a selection of useful extensions, themes and utilities. The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... Mozilla Firefox (originally known as Phoenix and briefly as Mozilla Firebird) is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers . ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform email and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ...

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Overview

The project is being developed with an intended audience of novice and intermediate computer users in mind. The Firemonger compilation will therefore allow them to install and begin using the browser and e-mail client without the hassle of having to find and install the needed files. The CD jacket presents a big orange flame, logo of Firemonger. The autorun launches Firefox to display the guide. The user can then choose between different installations, Firefox, Thunderbird, or themes and extensions for both of those programs. Beginners guides are also included, describing each different feature of Firefox and Thunderbird, from pop-up blocking to spell-checker and download manager, and how-to's explaining installation, use and the highlights of included themes and extensions.

Background

The Firemonger Project was founded by James Wierick in September 2004 and was originally called FirefoxCD. It was renamed The Firemonger Project in November 2004. In July 2005, The Firemonger Project merged with the MozCD Project, combining the advantages of both projects for the v2.0 release. Over time it has been contributed to by many people who enjoy using Firefox and Thunderbird and want others to benefit from these quality, free programs.

Current version

As of September 2005, the current version of Firemonger is 1.04c. The next major update will be coming out simultaneously with Firefox 1.5 and will also be titled 1.05. The Firemonger Project's next release will use the MozCD technology, in order to make the CD more user-friendly and improve updating tasks for the project's translators. The backbone now consists of XHTML files which use DTD's to include text. One of the over 15 available localizations can be chosen when the program starts. Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same expressive possibilities as HTML, but a stricter syntax. ... A Document Type Definition (DTD for short) is a set of declarations that conform to a particular markup syntax and that describe a class, or type, of SGML or XML documents, in terms of constraints on the structure of those documents. ...

License Information

The Firemonger Project is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license. Materials and software included in the compilation are distributed under their own licenses. Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo Some Rights reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. ...

External Links

Firemonger Home Page