59 Facts About Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

In November 2017, Mozilla Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name Quantum to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface.

Mozilla Firefox is available for Windows 7 and later versions, macOS, and Linux.

The Mozilla Firefox Foundation reassured them that the browser would always bear the name Mozilla Firefox Firebird to avoid confusion.

The name Mozilla Firefox was said to be derived from a nickname of the red panda, which became the mascot for the newly named project.

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Mozilla Firefox attracted attention as an alternative to Internet Explorer, which had come under fire for its alleged poor program design and insecurity—detractors cite IE's lack of support for certain Web standards, use of the potentially dangerous ActiveX component, and vulnerability to spyware and malware installation.

In 2016, Mozilla announced a project known as Quantum, which sought to improve Firefox's Gecko engine and other components to improve the browser's performance, modernize its architecture, and transition the browser to a multi-process model.

Mozilla Firefox began the roll-out of a fix shortly thereafter, using their Mozilla Firefox Studies component.

Mozilla Firefox has an integrated search system which uses Google by default in most markets but an update for American users in 2021 made it start including paid promotions by default in its suggestions.

Mozilla Firefox provides an environment for web developers in which they can use built-in tools, such as the Error Console or the DOM Inspector, and extensions, such as Firebug and more recently there has been an integration feature with Pocket.

Mozilla Firefox Hello was an implementation of WebRTC, added in October 2014, which allows users of Mozilla Firefox and other compatible systems to have a video call, with the extra feature of screen and file sharing by sending a link to each other.

Mozilla Firefox Hello was scheduled to be removed in September 2016.

Mozilla Firefox previously supported add-ons using the XUL and XPCOM APIs, which allowed them to directly access and manipulate much of the browser's internal functionality.

Mozilla Firefox has occasionally installed extensions for users without their permission.

Mozilla Firefox can have themes added to it, which users can create or download from third parties to change the appearance of the browser.

Mozilla Firefox 4 was the first release to introduce significant HTML5 and CSS3 support.

Mozilla Firefox has passed the Acid2 standards-compliance test since version 3.

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.

Mozilla Firefox justified its partnership with Adobe and Google by stating:.

Mozilla Firefox allowed for a sandbox security model to manage privileges accorded to JavaScript code, but that feature has since been deprecated.

Mozilla Firefox generally has fewer publicly known security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, improved security is often cited as a reason to switch from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox.

Symantec later clarified their statement, saying that Mozilla Firefox still had fewer security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, as counted by security researchers.

In October 2009, Microsoft's security engineers acknowledged that Mozilla Firefox was vulnerable to a security issue found in the 'Windows Presentation Foundation' browser plug-in since February of that year.

In 2010, a study of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, based on data compiled from the National Vulnerability Database, Mozilla Firefox was listed as the fifth-most vulnerable desktop software, with Internet Explorer as the eighth, and Google Chrome as the first.

Mozilla Firefox 11, released in January 2012, introduced a 3D page inspector that visualizes web pages' document object model three-dimensionally through WebGL.

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In January 2015, TorrentFreak reported that using Mozilla Firefox when connected to the internet using a VPN can be a serious security issue due to the browser's support for WebRTC.

Mozilla Firefox 43 blocked unsigned extensions but allowed enforcement of extension signing to be disabled.

In November 2018, Mozilla Firefox began using a sandbox to isolate web tabs from each other and from the rest of the system.

Since version 60 Mozilla Firefox includes the option to use DNS over HTTPS, which causes DNS lookup requests to be sent encrypted over the HTTPS protocol.

Mozilla Firefox has a privacy agreement with this server host that restricts their collection of information about incoming DNS requests.

In March 2021, Mozilla Firefox launched SmartBlock in version 87 to offer protection against cross-site tracking, without breaking the websites users visit.

In September 2013, Mozilla released a Metro-style version of Firefox, optimized for touchscreen use, on the "Aurora" release channel.

Traditionally, installing the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox entails visiting the Mozilla Firefox website and downloading an installer package, depending on the desired localization and system architecture.

Mozilla Firefox can run on number of other architectures on Linux, including ARM, AArch64, PowerPC, POWER, Sparc, HPPA, MIPS, s390, and in the past Alpha, IA-64 and m68k.

Mozilla Firefox for mobile is a web browser for mobile phones, tablets, and PDAs.

Former Mozilla Firefox for Android, was a web browser for Android devices, such as mobile phones and tablets.

One reason given by Mozilla Firefox was that prior to iOS 8, Apple had supplied third-party browsers with an inferior version of their JavaScript engine which hobbled their performance, making it impossible to match Safari's JavaScript performance on the iOS platform.

In 2015, Mozilla announced it was moving forward with Firefox for iOS, with a preview release made available in New Zealand in September of that year.

In November 2016, Mozilla Firefox released a new iOS app titled Mozilla Firefox Focus, a private web browser.

Mozilla Firefox Reality was released for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality headsets in September 2018.

Mozilla Firefox Reality is available on HTC Vive, Oculus, Google Daydream and Microsoft Hololens headsets.

Mozilla Firefox is regularly built for the current branch of the operating system, the latest versions are packaged for each release and remain frozen until the next release.

Solaris port of Mozilla Firefox was maintained by the Oracle Solaris Desktop Beijing Team, until March 2017 when the team was disbanded.

GNU IceCat is another derived version of Mozilla Firefox distributed by the GNU Project, which maintains its separate branding.

Firefox icon is a trademark used to designate the official Mozilla build of the Firefox software and builds of official distribution partners.

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Early Firebird and Phoenix releases of Mozilla Firefox were considered to have reasonable visual designs but fell short when compared to many other professional software packages.

Shortly afterwards, the Mozilla Firefox Foundation invited Garrity to head up the new visual identity team.

In June 2019, Mozilla unveiled a revised Firefox logo, which was officially implemented on version 70.

In February 2011, Mozilla announced that it would be retiring Spread Firefox .

Mozilla Firefox community has engaged in the promotion of their web browser.

Mozilla Firefox 3 used less memory than Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9.

In conclusion, Tom's Hardware determined that Mozilla Firefox was the best browser for Windows 7 OS, but that it only narrowly beat Google Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox scored the highest on the "non-performance" index, which measured memory efficiency, reliability, security, and standards conformance, finishing ahead of Chrome, the runner-up.

Mozilla Firefox surpassed all other browsers on the Peacekeeper benchmark but was behind the Microsoft products when tested with SunSpider.

Mozilla Firefox took the lead with WebXPRT, which runs several typical HTML5 and JavaScript tasks.

On Octane, Mozilla Firefox came ahead of IE and Safari, but again slightly behind the rest, including Vivaldi and Microsoft Edge.

Mozilla Firefox was the second-most used web browser until November 2011, when Google Chrome surpassed it.

Up to early 2020, Mozilla Firefox was the second-most widely used desktop browser, and that position made it the third-most popular with 3.

From Oct 2020, the desktop market share of Mozilla Firefox started to decline in countries where it used to be the most popular.