The FireFox Browser (and Weblog)

This Unofficial FireFox Weblog is a site about the browser of the century, the open source, community developed web browser called, FireFox.

(abbreviated officially as Fx, but also unofficially as FF) is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 17.83% of the recorded usage share of Web browsers as of March 2008, making it the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide after Internet Explorer.^[1]

Firefox uses the open-source Gecko layout engine, which implements some current Web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.

Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user’s desired search engine. Functions can be added through around 2,000 add-ons created by third party developers;^[2] the most popular include NoScript (script blocker), FoxyTunes (controls music players), Adblock Plus (ad blocker), StumbleUpon (website discovery), DownThemAll! (download functions) and Web Developer (web tools).^[3]

Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 2.0.0.14, released on April 16, 2008.^[4] Firefox’s source code is free software, released under a tri-license GPL/LGPL/MPL.^[5]

Thank you to Wikipedia, it’s contributors, and the developers of the FireFox Web Browser.