Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox (originally named Phoenix and then for a moment known as Mozilla Firebird) is a web browser for free cross-platform developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers.Version 3.0 was released on June 17, 2008. 

Before the release of version 1.0 of its on 9 November 2004, Firefox has gained a very good reception from the media, including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. With more than 5 million downloads in first 12 days of its release, and 6 million to 24 November 2004, Firefox 1.0 is one of the free software, open-source (open source) is the most widely used among home users. 

Through Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a web browser small, fast, simple, and very able to be developed (apart from the Mozilla Suite is the larger). Firefox has become the main focus of the Mozilla development along with the e-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird, and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the Mozilla Foundation's official browser release. 

Among the popular features of Firefox is blocking pop-ups that have been installed in it, and a development mechanism (extension) to add additional functionality. Although these features are already available for some time in other browsers such as Mozilla Suite and Opera, Firefox is the first browser to gain acceptance in this magnitude. Firefox targeted to receive about 10% market share from Microsoft Internet Explorer (the most popular browser with a large margin (per 2004) until 2005, which has been termed by many as the year the return of the browser war. 

Firefox has gained attention as an alternative to Internet Explorer since the Explorer has been criticized because of accusations ketidakamanannya-parties who agree on this assumption says Explorer does not follow Web standards, using ActiveX components are often dangerous, and weakness against the installation of spyware and malware-and the lack of featuresFirefox users are considered important. Microsoft itself has responded that they did not consider if the issues regarding security and features of Explorer to worry about. 

Version 2.0 was released on October 24, 2006. In version 2.0, Mozilla has a bug (weakness) that will "crash" if you open a web page (Web page) is very large and have JavaScript, but this has been fixed. 

Ref: wikipedia.org