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Firefox contains many outstanding characteristics, such as tabbed browsing, instant bookmarks, download manager, custom search engines and so on. Firefox development objective is to “Be of the Internet browser” and “for most people the best Internet experience”

Users can expand and themes from the definition of the function and appearance of Firefox in the Mozilla add-on component maintenance addons.mozilla.org site already has nearly 2000 kinds of additional components available for download (to April 2008 so far).

For website developers, Firefox also provides a good development platform. Website developers through the built-in tools to carry out development work, such as the error console, DOM viewer, this material can also be extended outside like Web Developer to an extension of the development function.

Tabbed Browsing

Firefox supports tabbed browsing means that a window can open multiple pages, this feature inherited from the Mozilla Application Suite, has also become well-known feature of Firefox. Firefox also allows users to use in the home “|” as separator in automatically open pages in a number of home settings, allows users not only can set a home.

While Firefox 2 has further strengthened the tabbed browsing features, including easier to use, it becomes very clear paging tag, “Undo browser state” can experience a crash when re-open the page in front of, “turn off the recent withdrawal of the paging “can restore accidentally turn off the paging.

Additional Components

firefox users can expand by installing Firefox to add or modify functions. Expand the types of all-inclusive: like mouse gestures, ad blocking window, enhanced tabbed browsing and so on. Firefox development sometimes expanded integration features such as tabbed browsing is a Mozilla extension on MultiZilla in the transplant.

Provide a high degree of liberalization, the expansion of functions, but users may find and install the expansion of the difficulties encountered, will be required to expand the functionality into Firefox Medium.

Most of the expansion is not set up or supported by Mozilla, the expansion in the user’s computer also has the authority to access the data and, therefore, have seen the expansion of a malicious. Mozilla in this regard provides a scalable authentication, to ensure that these volunteers provide the expansion of the development does not contain any malicious software. In addition by a third party developer created extension, Mozilla does not guarantee the operation of Mozilla products may also contain any software errors or security vulnerabilities.

Includes expansion of themes, plug-in procedures (Plugin) and so on, these additional components can be maintained from addons.mozilla.org official Mozilla website, or from other third-party developers to obtain. Firefox can also be some expansion in the SeaMonkey web browsers.

Additional components in the Mozilla web site can find a complete list of extensions. As of February 11, 2008, the web site Firefox extension of a total of 1953.

Official Releases

• ChatZilla – A full-featured IRC chat client, running in Firefox.

• DOM Inspector – for web development use. Can view any page of the DOM tree.

• Venkman – for Web developers to use the JavaScript debugger.

• Talkback – in Firefox crash report to Mozilla.

Firefox companion

Some of the official Firefox extension of the joint development by the Mozilla and on the website in order to pack (Extension + browser) way of release.

• Firefox eBay partner – View “My eBay” status and, in particular to remind the time of the incident, if a higher offer.

Google

• Google Browser Sync – allows the user to multiple computers through the Internet on the configuration synchronization.

• Google Notebook – to provide a simple method in a web browser to save and organize information.

• Google Toolbar – A Toolbar is provided in the form of Google search and related functions.

• Google Web Accelerator – speed up Web browsing

• CustomizeGoogle – Allows users to change the basis of necessary and custom Google appearance of third-party tools.

• Advanced Dork: – through the menu provided by Google advanced operators used third-party tools.

Apply

• FireFTP – cross-platform FTP client

Network Integration Services

• AllPeers – for registered users, providing inter-Friend feature peer-to-peer file sharing.

• Googlepedia – in the user’s Google search results provided by the content of Wikipedia entries.

• Joga.com Companion – for Mozilla Firefox to create topic, while providing the World Cup in 2006 and the related tools Joga.com.

• LibX – Library Classification.

• StumbleUpon – based on user evaluation and interest in visiting a random page.

• Wikipedia Toolbar – assisted on Wikipedia browsing and editing.

Web browser

• Adblock Plus Adblock modified version – the adoption of blacklists and whitelists to filter network matching ads.

• AlchemyPoint – browser-based mashup / semantic web tool, lets you customize websites, scrape structured data into RSS feeds, etc.

• All-in-One Gestures: make Firefox Mouse Gestures increased functionality.

• All-in-One Sidebar – sidebar enhancements.

• Colorful Tabs – tag of the page to use random colors to beautify the first tag page for tag management.

• Cookiesafe – Control site visit Cookie permissions.

• DownThemAll! – File Download Manager.

• Drag de Go: Super drag and drop, drag and drop selected text, links, pictures, point to the expansion of the document link, you can realize different functions, such as in a new tab opens, installation, save functions.

• Fasterfox – link to the page pre-reading, adjust the page rendering and use the “network optimization” to speed up the browser.

• Feedview – the RSS and Atom of feeds as a web page open.

• Firefox Showcase – will be the form of tags to display thumbnails, preview, manage and search.

• Flashblock – not explicitly started (click) or add whitelist circumstances, to prevent Flash content to run.

• Greasemonkey – allows users to modify specific web pages to install the user script.

• IE Tab – allows users to use IE in Firefox’s layout engine to browse the page. Can not display properly in Firefox in the web page very useful.

• Image Zoom – allows the user to change the page size.

• iMacros – Firefox web browser macro recorder.

• Me.dium – a graphical way to provide users with a common interest in a variety of instant messaging

• MR Tech Local Install – for a custom Firefox extension to provide packaged.

• NoScript – allows the user to control the JavaScript and other potentially executable content.

• PDF Download – Allows users to choose to deal with PDF files, you can directly download the PDF document.

• Operator – the provision of micro-format treatment.

• RankQuest SEO Toolbar – provides a variety of search engine optimization tools.

• Sage – lightweight RSS reader to expand.

• ScrapBook – the enhanced increase in the clipboard, save the page, the page features collections and notes.

• Stylish – the use of user-defined style of website and the appearance of XUL applications be modified (only support the use of CSS-designed site)

• Tab Mix Plus – to provide enhanced version of tabbed browsing.

• Video Downloader – from a variety of video stations, such as Youtube, downloaded video.

• Vimperator – let Firefox use Vim similar appearance and behavior.

• Quick TransLation (qtl) – Click on the words when translated.

Search

• Add to Search Bar: can be any page of the search function add search bar, as long as the right-click on the search box and select “Add to Search Bar …”。

Agent management

• FoxyProxy: By using wildcards, regular expressions and other convenient ways for the definition of arbitrary URLs proxy server, preset has Tor Configuration Wizard.

• gladder: automatically find online web proxy, use proxy access settings automatically blocked addresses well.

• SwitchProxy Tool: can quickly switch Firefox’s proxy settings.

• TorButton: dedicated to meet the Tor proxy management.

• Multiproxy Switch: Rapid switch to Firefox proxy settings, based on SwitchProxy Tool, to support the latest version of Firefox 3.

Web site development tools

• Firebug – permit for any site CSS, HTML, DOM and JavaScript debugging, editing and revision, and provides other web development tools.

• Web Developer – increased in the browser with various web development tools, menus and toolbars.

Application Integration

• FlashGot – download functionality and integration to provide a large number of external download managers.

• FoxyTunes – control external media player.

Themes

Firefox support for a variety of themes to change appearance. Themes are CSS and image files of the collection of packaging paper, Firefox Add-ons Web site can be found much of the set topic.

Pegging Procedures (Plugin)

Firefox supports the Netscape Plugin Application Program Interface (NPAPI)-based plug-in procedures, which are common early browser support plug-in standards, from the Opera and Internet Explorer 3.0 to 5.0 supported NPAPI.

June 30, 2004, Mozilla Foundation, Adobe, Apple, Macromedia, Opera, and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation jointly announced a series of web browser plug-in changes in the procedures. The new API will allow web developers to provide a richer browsing experience, but also to maintain the network of the world’s standards and innovation. The new plug-in system will be used in Mozilla products in the future

Timely Search

Firefox to provide enhanced search features, including a fast “means to fight that is to find” function, users can just F3 search box in the Enter search string, you can automatically marked out to look for the string.

Instant Bookmarks

Instant bookmarks, users can bookmark a way to read RSS or Atom Subscribe to the project, this feature first appeared in the preview version of Firefox 1.0, and subsequently transplanted to the Mozilla Suite Medium. Instant bookmark will be updated automatically, there is no way to stop or control of real-time updates bookmark action.

Cross-Platform support

Mozilla Firefox can be a variety of platform implementation, the current version of the official release to support the following platforms

• multiple versions of Microsoft windows operating system, from Windows 98, 98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003 to Vista.

• Apple Computer’s Mac OS X

• Linux-based operating system, the system must use X. Org Server or XFree86.

In Windows 95 installed above the many steps necessary.

In addition to the above operating system but because Firefox is open source software, together with the code with the operating system are independent, so Firefox can be in a variety of platforms and operating systems on the compiler, including the OS / 2, AIX, FreeBSD, Windows XP Professional x64 version of Firefox have compiled executable file. In other relatively small-scale operating system, for example, SkyOS, ZETA also has traces of Firefox.

Firefox settings to use a unified file format, so different operating systems can share the same Firefox settings, but may experience some problems, especially the use of expansion.

Supporting a Wide Range of Network Standards

Firefox support for a lot of network standards, includes HTML, XML, XHTML, SVG 1.1 (part of), CSS (apart from the standard, there is expanded support), ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSLT , XPath, and PNG files (including transparency support).

Although Firefox 2 and did not pass the Acid2 Web standard test, but since Firefox 3.0 Alpha 2 version has been followed through the Acid2 test and Acid3 71/100 tests.

Security

Firefox uses the “sandbox security module” (sandbox security model), limiting the page scripting language on the user-side data access, protect users from malicious attacks scripting language. The page data transmission, use SSL / TLS encryption methods to protect users and Web sites to transfer data between the secrecy, in addition to also support the smart card as a data validation approach.

Mozilla Foundation provides a “bug bonus” to reward researchers found that Firefox vulnerabilities. Mozilla official hope that the security vulnerability can be exploited has been found before, and then go to amend him, to avoid user to attack.

Because Firefox than Internet Explorer for the amendment has fewer security vulnerabilities that have not yet, so to enhance the Internet security is also often are encouraged to consider the user by Internet Explorer switch to Firefox one of the reasons. Washington Post also reported in 2006, the year, Internet Explorer allows users to a total of 284 days exposure to security vulnerabilities is not amended, while Firefox only 9 days.

A 2006 Symantec (Symantec) report shows that in September of the year so far, although the Firefox security vulnerabilities than any other browser, but the speed of loopholes in the amendments also allow other browsers challenge. Symantec (Symantec), after the company was to clarify their description, after safety studies, Firefox than Internet Explorer for security vulnerabilities or less. To March 26, 2008, according to software security site Secunia statistical data, Firefox 2 has four security vulnerabilities have not been amended, most have been marked as “low risk.” Relative Internet Explorer 7 has eight security vulnerabilities have not been amended, and the majority have been marked as “moderate risk.”