Foxie is an Internet Explorer shell, meaning it uses the Trident rendering engine used in Internet Explorer, it's stated purpose is to "bridge the gap between Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox" essentially installing a selected set of Firefox features that work on top of Internet Explorer instead of installing an entirely new browser. The name probably derives from a merging of Firefox and IE, a popular acronym for Internet Explorer. An Internet Explorer shell is computer software (in most cases, a web browser) that uses the Trident rendering engine of Internet Explorer. ... Trident (also known as MSHTML) is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer. ... Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary graphical web browser made by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. ... Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ...

Foxie is NOT related to Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft. It has been added to the rogue programs list on several malware websites and removed from download.com for having added malware. The website that hosts the files for download is dnscaching.net a known malware website that host other edited malware infected applications such as media players, BitTorrent programs, P2P File Sharing programs, game programs and many others.

The latest version of Foxie comes with a so-called Security Firwall which really is an Internet Worm that downloads malware. As the first sign of infection, you will get popups with Firefox and IE browsers. They will display "Advertisment - NSIS Media" by launching from windows explorer.

For more info about this worm-

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.elitper.a@mm.html

Review at BetaNews-

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Foxie/1125399370/1

Features

• Tabbed browsing
• AdBlocker
• Desktop search
• Firewall (based upon the PeerGuardian project
• FlashBlock (a blocker for flash webpage elements)
• Infinity Button for finding random websites
• added Keyboard shortcuts
• Cache cleaner for privacy
• Advanced Search bar
• HTTP header blocking for privacy
• Swift sweeper for scanning and removing malware

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Limitations

Most notably there is no plugin system that is a defining point for Firefox's success, since foxie isn't actually an application in itself and is more realisitically thought of as a Plugin for Internet Explorer, it would involve developing an entirely different system to the one currently implemented in Firefox. This is probably thought of as unnecessary by most users and developers, especially since implementing a one-click system of plugins as available to Firefox users would be more difficult in a shell than a full application. A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ...

Related to that is the fact that the extensive plugin environment for Firefox now allows it to act as an almost complete Internet Explorer shell through the use of such plugins as IE tab.

Foxie will only run on a system that has Internet Explorer, so essentially only on Microsoft Windows systems, or a well emulated Windows system. Naturally there have been no ports of Foxie itself to other systems due to the inherant redundancy. Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft for use on personal computers, although versions of Windows designed for servers, embedded devices, and other platforms also exist. ... This article is about emulation in computer science. ...

Since Foxie uses the same underlying engine for interpreting web content as Internet Explorer, Foxie does not answer the issues that free software and web standards advocates have with Internet Explorer. The GNU free software logo Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ...

External links

• Foxie main site
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