Firefox 1.0

Firefox (previously Firebird) is an open source browser based on Mozilla code. Its popularity exploded in the development community for being small, fast, and highly standards compliant. It also offers features such as tabbed browsing, pop-up blockers, integrated Google search, and better security than Internet Explorer, enabling Firefox to be the first browser to take a bite out of IE’s market share. Because it is open source, many useful extensions have been created for it (see the sidebar, "Web Developer Extension for Firefox“).

Download and find out more about Firefox at the Mozilla web site, http://www.mozilla.org.

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