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Firefox (category)
Mozilla

FoundationCorporation Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors. ... Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, nowadays called SeaMonkey suite. ... The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by the growing global community of open-source developers, only some of whom are employed...

Community / Customization

FeaturesExtensions (category)
Spread FirefoxAdoptionFiremonger
The features of Mozilla Firefox distinguish it from other web browsers such as Internet Explorer. ... Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors. ... Since its initial release in 2004, market adoption of Mozilla Firefox has increased rapidly. ... Firemonger is a community-run project with a goal of developing a multilingual easy-to-use compilation CD with Mozilla Foundations Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, and a selection of useful extensions, themes and utilities. ...

Forks and Related Projects

FlockIceweasel
Portable Edition • Netscape 9
SwiftfoxSwiftweasel
XeroBank Flock is both a web browser based on Mozilla technologies and the name of the company developing the web browser. ... Iceweasel is the name of two currently independent Mozilla Firefox rebranding projects. ... Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (formerly known as Portable Firefox) is a repackaged version of Mozilla Firefox created by John T. Haller. ... Also see Netscape (web browser) Netscape Navigator 9 is an upcoming release of the Netscape series of browsers produced by Netscape and published by its parent, AOL, first announced on 23 January 2007. ... Swiftfox is a speed optimized web browser offshoot of Mozilla Firefox for Linux. ... Swiftweasel is a free and open source build of Mozilla Firefox. ... XeroBank Browser, previously called Torpark,[1][2] is a source available (but not technically open source),[3] portable browser originally forked from Portable Firefox web browser with Tor access built into it. ...

Origins and Lineage

Mozilla Application Suite
Netscape Communicator
Netscape Communications Corp.
The Book of Mozilla The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. ... The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite, and code named Seamonkey) is a free, cross-platform internet suite, whose components include a web browser, an e-mail and news client, an HTML editor, and an IRC client. ... Netscape Communicator was a proprietary Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. ... Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... The Book of Mozilla is a well-known computer Easter egg found in the Netscape and Mozilla series of web browsers. ...

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This is a list of some of the many available Firefox extensions, software add-ons designed for Mozilla Firefox based web browsers. Many Firefox extensions work in the SeaMonkey web browser as well. Mozilla Firefox showing several extensions and a custom theme See also: List of Firefox extensions Extensions are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla web browsers, and add features to the application or allow existing features to be modified. ... Hi all! Goog directory <a href=http://tajga. ... Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... SeaMonkey is a free, open source, and cross-platform Internet suite that is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite. ...


For a more complete list, see the official repository. [1] As of April 30, 2007, there were 2286 extensions available from the Firefox Add-ons repository website. is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

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ChatZilla

Download high resolution version (1280x998, 70 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1280x998, 70 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... ChatZilla is an IRC client, written in XUL and JavaScript for Mozilla web browsers. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... DOM Inspector inspecting Wikipedias main page DOM Inspector is one of the web developer tools included in Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox. ... A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who is specifically engaged in the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over the HTTP protocol using an HTTP server, a web server, and an HTTP client, a web browser. ... // Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform- and language-independent standard object model for representing HTML or XML and related formats. ... Venkman is the JavaScript debugger component of the Mozilla web browser. ... JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. ... A debugger is a computer program that is used to test and debug other programs. ... A crash reporter is an application whose function is to report crash data to a third party, usually to the party responsible for the crashed program. ...

Firefox Companions

These are official Firefox extensions which are also co-developed and distributed by Mozilla on their site as a bundle (extension + browser). The close involvement of Mozilla in these distribution is notable as being a new distribution tactic, especially with large sites like eBay who have a very large distribution reach.

  • Firefox Companion for eBay - track "my eBay" status and get alerts for certain events such as being outbid
  • Firefox Companion for Kodak - drag and drop photos into Kodak's image gallery and other gallery sites such as flickr

This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. ... Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2. ...

Google

  • Google Browser Sync - allows users to synchronize their settings across multiple computers via the Internet.
  • Google Notebook - provides a simple way to save and organize clips of information when conducting research online.
  • Google Toolbar - provides features related to Google Search as a toolbar.
  • Google Web Accelerator - is a web accelerator.
  • CustomizeGoogle - (not official) allows the user to change and customize the look and feel of Google to their liking

Google Browser Sync is a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on June 8, 2006 that allows users of the Firefox web browser to synchronize their settings across multiple computers via the Internet. ... Google Notebook (GN) is a free service offered by Google that provides a simple way to save and organize thoughts when conducting research online. ... Googles main pages unusually spartan design, uncluttered appearance and quick loading time have contributed greatly to the sites mass appeal. ... Google Web Accelerator is a computer program produced by Google that is designed to speed up web browsing. ... CustomizeGoogle is a Mozilla Firefox extension adds features such as Google Suggest and alternate search engine links from the results you get when searching the web with Google. ...

Applications

The Mozilla framework has been built with the intention of providing all the features require to develop applications.

  • FireFTP - a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. ...

Website integration

  • AllPeers - provides file-sharing by peer-to-peer among friends registered to the service.
  • Chatsum - allows users to chat with people visiting the same website.
  • Chipmark - automatically syncs bookmarks across multiple machines
  • Googlepedia - shows users Wikipedia articles along with their Google search results.
  • Joga.com Companion - creates a visual theme for Mozilla Firefox as well as providing tools relating to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and Joga.com
  • LibX - library catalogues
  • StumbleUpon - allows users to encounter random sites based upon the rating given by stumblers and their interests.

AllPeers is an extension of the Mozilla Firefox browser that is currently in early development which allows building a social network, sharing files on a P2P basis. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Chipmark is an open source software project, licensed under the GPL, that allows a user to have a set of browser bookmarks that they share among many computers that they work on. ... Googlepedia is a free software extension to the Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, that displays relevant articles from the free Web-based encyclopedia, Wikipedia, on Google search engine results pages. ... Joga Bonito (which means play beautiful in Portuguese) is a football-oriented social network service created by Nike and Google, based upon Googles orkut. ... Qualifying countries The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the eighteenth instance of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international association football world championship tournament. ... LibX is a free, open source scholars extension for the Firefox browser, that lets people use services offered by their library. ... StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. ...

Browser features

Puzzlr is just one of thousands of GreaseMonkey scripts.
  • Adblock or its variant Adblock Plus - used for blocking ads via a blacklist.
  • All-in-One Sidebar - adds enhanced sidebar functionality similar to that found in Opera.
  • Colorful Tabs - adds randomized colors to page tabs in order to beautify the interface.
  • Cookiesafe - controls which websites have permission to store cookies.
  • DownThemAll - a popular download manager/accelerator.
  • Fasterfox - pre-fetches links on pages, adjusts page rendering, and employs "network optimizations" to make browsing faster.
  • Feedview - opens RSS and Atom feeds as webpages.
  • Firefox Showcase - shows tabs as thumbnails, to preview, manage and search across them.
  • Flashblock - prevents Flash content from running without being explicitly started (clicked) or whitelisted.
  • Greasemonkey - allows users to install user scripts that modify specific web pages.
  • IE Tab - allows users to view pages using the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within Firefox. This is useful for some websites that do not work properly in Firefox.
  • Image Zoom - allows users to change image sizes within the page.
  • iMacros - is a macro recorder for the Firefox web browser.
  • Me.dium - shows a graphical map of people on the web
  • MR Tech Local Install - contains "bundled" extensions to customize Firefox.
  • NoScript - blocks javascript, java and plugins except for sites on a whitelist. Useful to protect anonimity and prevent XSS attacks.
  • PDF Download - allows users to customize the handling of PDF files.
  • Operator - parses microformats.
  • RankQuest SEO Toolbar - provides access to various search engine optimization tools.
  • Sage - a popular, lightweight Feed reader extension.
  • ScrapBook - adds enhanced scrapbooking, page saving, bookmarking, and notetaking functionality.
  • Stylish - allows the user to install custom CSS that can modify specific web pages and XUL application interfaces.
  • Tab Mix Plus - provides tabbed browsing enhancements.
  • Ultimate pricechecker - searches products on amazon, ebay, shopping.com, and shopzilla.com.
  • VideoDownloader - Download videos from sites like Youtube or Metacafe.

Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (801x634, 450 KB) My caption: Puzzlr is just one of thousands of Greasemonkey scripts. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (801x634, 450 KB) My caption: Puzzlr is just one of thousands of Greasemonkey scripts. ... Adblock is a popular content-filtering extension for the Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Application Suite web browsers. ... Adblock is a popular content-filtering extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. ... All-in-One Sidebar in action. ... // Colorful Tabs is a Mozilla Firefox plugin that replaces the standard silver-toned tabs with tabs of multiple colors. ... CookieSafe is a free, open source, and cross-platform web browser extension. ... DownThemAll is a mass download manager extention Mozilla Firefox. ... Fasterfox Fasterfox is a Mozilla Firefox extension that makes many performance and network tweaks to improve the browserss performance. ... Feedview is a feed reader extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. ... Firefox Showcase is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox, Flock and SeaMonkey (as a special port named Seamonkey Showcase) web browsers. ... Flashblock blocking two movies on CNET Flashblock is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey, Netscape Communicator, Netscape 8, and Flock that prevents Macromedia Flash movies from automatically playing when a web page is first loaded. ... // == Macromedia Flash == ==]] Using Macromedia Flash 8 (bundled in Studio 8) in Windows XP. Maintainer: Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) Latest release: 8 / September 30th, 2005 OS: Windows (no native Windows XP Professional x64 Edition support), Mac OS X, Linux (i386 only, via wine [1]) Use: Multimedia Content Creator License: Proprietary Website... A whitelist is a list of accepted items or persons in a set. ... Screenshot of the BookBurro user script running in Greasemonkey. ... Scripting programming languages (commonly called scripting languages or script languages) are computer programming languages designed for scripting the operation of a computer. ... A screenshot of a web page. ... IE Tab is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. ... Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer, abbreviated MSIE), and commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of proprietary graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ... A layout engine, or rendering engine, is a software that takes web content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc) and displays the formatted content on the screen. ... Image Zoom is an extension for all Gecko based web browsers. ... iMacros Logo iMacros is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browsers which adds record and replay functionality similar to that found in web testing and form filler software. ... Me. ... MR Tech Local Install is a popular compilation of extensions for the Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite, Seamonkey, and Flock web browsers. ... Firefox extensions are software plugins that add new features to the Mozilla Firefox web browsers. ... PDF Download is a free Firefox extension that allows the user to choose whether you want to view a PDF file inside a browser (as PDF or HTML) or you want to download it. ... Operator is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. ... Microformats are mark-up that allow expression of semantics in an HTML (or XHTML) web page. ... RankQuest SEO Toolbar is a Mozilla Firefox extension that provides access to various Search Engine Optimization tools from within Firefox. ... Structure of a typical search results page Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural (organic or algorithmic) search results. ... Sage is an RSS and atom extension for Mozilla Firefox. ... An aggregator or news aggregator is client software that uses a web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results. ... Making scrapbooks is a hobby relating to pasting newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photos, usually personal, or other memorabilia into custom-decorated albums, or scrapbooks. ... Scrapbooking is a method for preserving a legacy of written history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks. ... For the reading-related term, see bookmark (books). ... A mind map connects ideas together visually Notetaking is the practice of writing pieces of information, often in an informal or unstructured manner. ... Stylish is a free Mozilla extension that allows for the manipulation of web pages and XUL application user interfaces through the use of CSS or user styles available localy or from centralized web-site [1], which allows style sharing. ... In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... XUL (pronounced zool ()), the XML User Interface Language, is an XML user interface markup language developed by the Mozilla project. ... Tab Mix Plus is a Mozilla Firefox extension that improves and adds to the tabbed browsing functions in Firefox. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy a proposed guideline for notability (see Wikipedia:Notability (software)). If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. ... Screenshot of the VideoDownloader tray icon VideoDownloader is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browsers which allows the user to download videos from sites that use a Flash video player, for example YouTube. ...

Website development tools

  • Firebug - allows the debugging, editing, and modifying of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM, and JavaScript, and provides other web development tools.
  • Web Developer - adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

Firebug 1. ... The Web Developer toolbar. ...

Application integration

FlashGot is a free Mozilla extension meant to handle single and massive (all and selection) downloads with several external download managers. ... A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance). ... FoxyTunes is a Mozilla Firefox extension which allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser. ...

References

  1. ^ Firefox Add-ons Repository Mozilla.org, Accessed April 30, 2007


 

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