Mozilla- this is the name of the organization, derived from the monster Godzilla. This is what caused the browser to survive in today's complex world. They officially received permission from the creator to use his character's name in the names of the organization and products. It was assumed that it would be possible to dislodge the first popular visual browser NCSA Mosaic from its position as king of the hill, and it is this struggle that is implied in the name. In the world of text browsers Mosaic gained wild popularity thanks to the rendering of pages with a certain design, advanced features such as bookmarks and page code in the sidebar. A product released to compete with it presented the page output BEFORE loading completely, which was innovative, and was called Netscape Navigator(Netscape Gold, Netscape Suite, then Netscape Communicator package). Micro$oft tore up some of the browser's features and began promoting its Explorer using aggressive methods and direct pressure, eventually achieving an impressive 94%. Then Netscape began to lag behind in functionality. It was bought by AOL and, in its own tradition, closed. But before that they made an open source project, and this was a very right step. The project was led by the Mozilla organization with its community. And I was there, drinking honey and beer. At one time there were parallel browsers Netscape 6.1 and Mozilla (hereinafter Mozilla Suite). It was the Gekko engine rewritten from scratch and an interface on XUL, as Nostradamus predicted to us. After the closure of Netscape, the topic of releasing a lightweight browser with a modular structure appeared.
Ugh. Next: a browser appeared Phoenix, with a self-explanatory title (you can hear what it says without me). The word turned out to be someone's brand and was banned. Bullshit question! They took the name Firebird. (Thunderbird mailer, later Songbird player, Sunbird calendar.) And - surprise! - it also turned out to be a brand - the name of the DBMS. Renamed to red panda, which everyone reads as fox - Firefox. Finally managed to register this. Firefox became fatter over time, and a lightweight Kmeleon project appeared, unfortunately, only for Windows. There was an interesting social browser called Flock, but it came out completely. The ponderous sluggishness of the Mozilla organization and sluggish bug fixing, and especially the subsequent closure of the project for the embedded version of the Gekko engine, turned supporters of the organization away from them, and Mozilla lost a huge part of the market: now almost all browsers are made not on Gekko, but on Chromium and, much less often, WebKit. Alternative browsers on Gekko are, in fact, Firefox stripped down or hung with bazookas and radars. The Mozilla Suite project was closed, but is now being continued in the form of Mozilla SeaMonkey. Nightly builds and betas of Firefox were called Minefield and Aurora, respectively, then DeveloperEdition and integrated Developer Tools appeared.
It is a logical desire of every Internet user to have a safe and comfortable browsing experience on the Internet.
And safety and comfort, first of all, depend on the characteristics and features (the program through which pages are viewed).
To date, a large number of the most have been created. However, the most popular are Google Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. In this article we will take a closer look at the latest browser from the above list.
Firefox (also Mozilla, also called “fire fox”) is installed on the computers of many users. Someone uses only this browser, praising it in every possible way. Some people really dislike it, preferring Chrome or Opera. There are even those who have never used the “fire fox” at all. And it will be useful for such people to learn about all the main pros and cons of Mozilla Firefox.
Advantages of Mozilla
1. High degree of security
Mozilla has built-in mechanisms that warn the user about the presence of a possible threat to the computer when viewing a particular web page, as well as when opening links from these pages.
2. Lightweight architecture
The browser itself is quite competently and rationally designed. This allows third-party developers to create a large number of add-ons and plugins that significantly expand the functionality of Mozilla Firefox.
On a separate page (https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/) you can find exactly the add-ons you need, which will make your stay on the Internet more comfortable and safe. Moreover, many add-ons are absolutely free and can be installed in a couple of clicks.
3. Availability of a master password
As you know, browsers have the ability to remember the login and password entered on different sites. On the one hand, this feature makes your life easier (you don’t need to enter the same data into the form every time).
On the other hand, there is a risk that someone from the same computer can use your accounts. Therefore, Firefox has implemented the ability to create a master password. When you install it, you will protect all data stored by the browser for all sites.
Rice. 1 Master password in the Mozilla FireFox browser 4. Convenient work with bookmarks
All bookmarks can be opened in one click from the main menu. Therefore, if you have to work a lot with bookmarks and actively navigate through them, then you will probably like Firefox. Also, when you open a new tab in the browser, a panel appears with the 9 most viewed pages. It is very comfortable.
5. Pop-up blocker
You can enable automatic blocking of all pop-ups in your browser settings. This will allow you to browse websites with greater comfort, without encountering annoying advertising.
Now let's list the identified
Disadvantages of Mozilla Firefox
1. Abundance of unnecessary items and panels in the main menu
For example, few people use sections such as “File”, “Edit”, “View”. However, these sections cannot be removed or hidden anywhere in order to free up more space for other elements.
2. Deactivate many extensions when updating the browser
If you have installed a large number of add-ons and extensions on Firefox, then after the next browser update you will have to install some add-ons again. However, they may not be supported by the new version of Firefox.
3. High resource intensity
Mozilla Firefox is perhaps the most resource-intensive browser. The firefox.exe process uses up RAM quite heavily. All this is especially noticeable on weak machines.
When opening a large number of tabs, the RAM often becomes 100% full. In addition, the flash plugin from Adobe consumes a lot of resources (it is what users most often install). However, if you have a powerful modern computer, there is nothing to fear.
4. Deterioration of some browser characteristics in its new versions
Oddly enough, the ease of use of Mozilla has deteriorated somewhat with the release of the latest versions. In particular, the interface has become less intuitive, and working with bookmarks has become more complicated.
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The browser was originally called "Phoenix". Some time later, the browser was renamed "Firebird" due to a trademark conflict, but this name was later changed to "Firefox" for a similar reason. However, “Firefox” turned out to be a trademark of The Charlton Company in the UK, which was reflected in the “About” dialogue.
Firefox (“fire fox”) is a literal translation from whale, pinyin hǔo hú, which the Chinese sometimes call the red fox and the red panda, after which, according to the developers, the browser is named. Firefox is preferably abbreviated as "Fx" or "fx" rather than "FF" or "FX".
The browser is often mistakenly called “Mozilla”.
The Firefox project was started by Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt while they were working at Netscape Communications, formerly part of AOL Time Warner. Since the demise of Netscape Communications, the entire Mozilla project has been managed by the then-established Mozilla Foundation, which owns the Mozilla Firefox trademarks.
Firefox was spun off from the Mozilla Application Suite, the code for which was created from scratch at the Mozilla Organization to replace the code for Netscape Communicator 5, some of which was released under the free Mozilla Public License after losing the "browser wars".
The browser uses the free, portable Gecko engine, designed to support open standards. Firefox is developed by employees of its subsidiary Mozilla Corporation and volunteers around the world.
Version history:
Firefox 1.0
Firefox 1.0 (codenamed “Phoenix”) was a direct successor to Mozilla Suite 1.7 (running on the Gecko 1.7 engine) and had quite a lot in common with it in the user interface - for example, in the settings window the buttons were located not horizontally (as now), but vertically, in the Mozilla tradition. Improvements include an extension manager and the ability to automatically update by downloading a new version installer.
The 1.0.x branch was the only one (at the moment) in which the developers made major changes to the API on the go, during its active use, which led to partial incompatibility of extensions for Fx 1.0.3 with versions 1.0.4-1.0.8
Currently no longer supported, has a significant number of unpatched security holes and is obsolete.
Firefox 1.5
Firefox 1.5 (codenamed Deer Park) was released on November 29 (according to other sources November 30), 2005, with regular updates for a year and a half.
Improvements in version 1.5:
Built-in automatic update system.
Faster and improved navigation.
Sorting tabs using the Drag and drop mechanism.
Improved pop-up blocker.
Clear Private Data function to delete personal information.
On May 31, Firefox 1.5.0.12 and Firefox 2.0.0.4 became available to the general public through an automatic update system. These are standard security and stability updates. Also 1.5.0.12 is the final version of the 1.5 branch. Firefox 1.5.0.12 already contains an improved update mechanism that will allow users to “migrate” to Firefox 2 by installing a special patch. An update to the 2.x branch was offered to users on June 28, 2007.
Firefox 2
Firefox 2.0 (codenamed "Bon Echo") was released on October 25, 2006. In the first 24 hours since the official release of the browser, it was downloaded more than 2 million times. It is built on the basis of the improved Firefox 1.5 engine - Gecko 1.8.1. It has improved support for JavaScript, SVG, XML, slightly changed the browser design, and introduced an anti-phishing system developed by Google. The original plan was to add a modern bookmarking system called Places, but due to difficulties in debugging it, it was only included in Firefox 3.0 (June 2008). Added text spell checking in web forms.
Firefox 3
On April 2, 2008, a completely stable version of Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 was released, which was included in Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9.
In beta versions, the format of the default address autocompletion drop-down list has been changed, and the autocomplete algorithm has been improved. By beta 4, the dependence of the result position on what the user selects by entering a certain search string has been implemented.
Added the ability to use system settings for access through a proxy server (environment variable $http_proxy) on the Linux platform, and a radio button for selecting it in the corresponding dialog, displayed only if the variable is set.
The DOM Inspector extension has been removed from the standard distribution. It is now available in add-ons.
On May 16, the first release candidate was released - Firefox 3.0 RC1, which has already been downloaded by more than 1.5 million people. It contained 10 serious errors (including three critical errors). The final version was supposed to be released only after all errors were corrected.
One of these "bugs" is actually a combination of features of the Linux fsync implementation, the use of fsync in SQLite version 3.5.8, and the consequences of requiring this version of SQlite by several builds of Firefox shortly before 3.0 RC1.
“This build reduces the memory footprint at runtime and significantly improves performance,” said Mozilla Vice President Mike Beltzner. RC2 added automatic memory cycle counters, systems for memory defragmentation, and also changed about a hundred code fragments (through which memory leaks occurred). The browser also received additional security mechanisms when working with protected web pages. Bookmarks, web activity history, cookies and passwords are now stored in a secure format. The JavaScript engine has been revised.
Release candidate 3 has been released. This version fixes the browser freezing bug in the Mac OS X 10.5.3 operating system; the versions for Windows and Linux remain unchanged.
On June 17, 2008, Firefox 3 was released, based on the Gecko 1.9 platform, which has been developed over the past 34 months. The new platform includes more than 15,000 changes that improve performance, increase stability and accuracy of content display, and simplify and improve code. The new platform makes Firefox 3 a more secure, easier to use, and more customizable product with many different features for developers of websites and Firefox add-ons.
Firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 is the next stable release and was released on June 30, 2009. Codename: Shiretoko. Gecko version is 1.9.1.
This release of Firefox came out as version 3.5, not 3.1 as originally planned.
This decision was made in order to more accurately highlight the numerous changes made since the release of Firefox 3.0 last summer. This includes a number of changes to tab management, web standards compatibility fixes, a heavily redesigned JavaScript engine, and privacy improvements including a new private mode that allows users to delete all personal data at the end of a session.
In addition, the final version of the browser has changed to a new logo. The image remains largely the same, with the exception of the fox's tail, which symbolizes the fire engulfing the Mozilla planet.
Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 is the next stable release and was released on January 21, 2010. Codename: Namoroka. Gecko version is 1.9.2.
At the preliminary testing stage, the release was referred to as version 3.2.
The main features of Firefox 3.6 are:
Improved performance: reducing the time it takes to launch the browser and open tabs, increasing responsiveness when executing user commands.
Support for lightweight themes that do not require restarting the browser (Personas), tighter integration with Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6, fixes to the smart address bar and autofill form.
Firefox 4.0
Version subsequent to Firefox 3.6. It was decided to release it under version 4.0, and not 3.7, as planned at the alpha testing stage. Firefox 4.0 will be released in early 2011.
One of the key areas in development was numerous corrections in the interface. For example, it is planned to place the tab bar in the window frame, get rid of the status bar, and the add-on manager will be redesigned. The ability to group open tabs will also be added.
The basic browser will include the Firefox Sync extension, which will allow users to synchronize their bookmarks, list of open tabs, history and saved passwords between multiple computers and mobile phones.
In addition, Firefox 4.0 will include a new JavaScript engine, Jägermonkey, which will increase the speed of execution of JavaScript code several times.
Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Today will be the third article about browsers. A little earlier, we already managed to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of a newcomer in the field of browser development - .
The share of these browsers in the RuNet market is quite large, but there is another representative of this galaxy, which is not inferior to them in popularity not only in RuNet, but also in the world. I'm talking about Mozilla Firefox.
In RuNet, the popularity of Mazila is comparable to the popularity of Opera, and approximately 30% of the total number of all Internet users access the Internet through this browser. But it is still popular in the world (about the same 30%), although it is inferior, and Google Chrome is already close to it, which over the several years of its existence has demonstrated an amazing increase in popularity.
Each of these browsers has its own features, and today we will try to look at everything that makes Firefox so popular and that can be useful for a webmaster when working on his website.
History of Mozilla Firefox and its features
Let's start, according to tradition, by saying - and it will always be completely free from here(big green "Download for free" button at the top right of the page). By the way, in 2008 this program set a record that was included in the Guinness Book of Records. In that memorable year, the new version was downloaded more than eight million times in the first 24 hours.
In general, Firefox traces its history back to the oldest graphical (non-text) browser on earth - Mosaic. The first versions of which were born back in 1994 and became something of a sensation. For the first time, Internet users were able to view graphic images on the web pages they opened.
Then Mosaic was renamed to the well-known Netscape Navigator, and then its name was changed a little more and it became Netscape Communicator.
In 1998, Netscape was acquired by a large American IT corporation and was created to further work on the browser and other software. non-profit organization Mozilla, under the auspices of which it was planned to release and develop open source software standards (this term was previously used as the working name for Netscape Navigator).
The Mozilla Organization was financed mainly by the same company Netscape and already under the wing of this organization the first version of Firefox was released. Its engine was completely written from scratch and it was on its basis that subsequent versions of the Netscape browser (starting with the sixth) were released.
After some time, the two browsers Firefox and Netscape went their separate ways (around 2003), as a result of which the latter died, and the former became one of the most popular Internet browsers in the world.
Firefox itself traces its history back to 2004 (although in 2002 it already existed, but was called Phoenix, and in 2003 it was renamed Firebird and only in 2004 it finally adopted its familiar name) and until recently its main competitor was IE, because the latter is built in by default into the most popular operating system of all times.
But in 2011, Mazila first felt serious competition from a newcomer called Google Chrome. And according to some data, the share of these browsers in the world is now approximately the same.
In general, the situation in the Internet browser market is now quite tense and competition is intensifying. This probably plays into the hands of us, ordinary users, because it forces developers to look for more and more new features that increase convenience and attract attention specifically to their brainchild. However, all new products are very quickly implemented by competitors, so none of the developers can rest on their laurels.
By the way, I recently read that in order to use Mozilla Firefox as the default search, the company of the same name paid the developers a billion dollars. It is good, however, to be a non-profit organization, because the income is impressive.
Well, that’s understandable - Firefox’s share is still huge and Google, most likely, will not go wrong. Even our domestic search engines are trying to create their browsers based on Chromium in order to bind users to them. Vivid examples include.
Our hero, by and large, does not currently possess any serious innovative features or features that differ from other analogues. It has all the necessary set of features, but nothing more. However, its popularity, in my opinion, lies not in the basic capabilities, but in what can be added to it with the help of extensions.
Not so long ago, Mazila Firefox was almost the only browser that supported the installation of full-fledged extensions. It was initially focused on this and that is why the developers decided not to overload the main core with all possible features. I decided to discuss this in a separate publication.
However, the ease of connecting and developing extensions for it also has a downside - the interface itself works somewhat slower and consumes more computer resources than its closest competitors (Chrome also consumes resources, but it works very quickly and, most importantly, very reliably - each has its own process ).
Mozilla has been giving the impression of being somewhat monstrous lately, especially compared to the fast and ascetic Chrome. However, it is still much more convenient to work with extensions in it, which, in my opinion, allows it to still remain among the leaders.
When changing the operating system or the entire computer, you can, of course, use the function of synchronizing your bookmarks, passwords and history using the tool described just above, and successfully restore everything on the new operating system. But God protects the best, so it wouldn’t hurt to do backup copy of your profile folder in Mozilla Firefox. You can open this profile folder in the following way.
From the top menu, select “Help” - “Information for solving problems” and click on the button opposite the “Profile folder” field:
If synchronization does not work out, then you can always copy this folder to its rightful place and get exactly the same settings, saved passwords and bookmarks in Mazil that you had before the move.
As I already said, Opera is my browser for surfing and it is its features that I am especially accustomed to. It has such a thing as an express panel, which contains previews of the sites I most frequently visit. At first, I really missed the same feature in the “fire fox”, because it was not implemented in it by default.
For example, Opera and Chrome have a built-in ability to synchronize bookmarks and other personal data made in the browser with the server in order to then be able to access your browser bookmarks from any computer in the world. This feature is certainly convenient and necessary (for example, when the operating system crashes).
But Mozilla Firefox did not provide such an option by default until the spring of 2011. However, this did not mean that she was not there. It is enough to install the extension and bookmark synchronization becomes possible in your favorite browser (if it is one for you).
Those. The idea put forward by the developer is very rational - everyone will be able to choose the add-ons they need and assemble their own set with only the functions they need. Another thing is that not everyone uses extensions (they still need to be found, installed and configured) and not everyone even knows about them. Therefore, this approach, in my opinion, has both positive and negative sides.
Also noteworthy is the increased rate of appearance of new versions of the fire fox last year. In the spring, the long-awaited Firefox 4.0 was released, which replaced version 3.6 released at the beginning of 2010. In total, more than a year passed between updates. Well, the latest current version of Firefox bears the proud number 23.0.1.
Either this is an attempt to follow the example of version numbering from the main competitor in the person of Google Chrome, or the developers really started to move, feeling that such a monster as Chrome with its innovations, speed and other little things was breathing in their backs.
There is also a mobile version, which can also be downloaded from the official website. Obviously, due to very close contacts between Google and the Mozilla Foundation, the mobile version is focused specifically on Android - the super popular mobile and tablet platform from the same Google.
Of course, Android rules, but not all mobile phones work on it. And the popularity of Opera Mobile or Mini, it seems to me, greatly prevents the mobile version of Mazila from becoming popular. Well, for me on the iPad there is nothing better than Google Chrome - almost a complete analogue of the desktop version, but very fast.
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The developers of the popular and progressive browser Mozilla Firefox took care of their users and came up with additional software to automatically update their search engine. This utility is installed on a personal computer along with an Internet browser. It has its own folder on the installation hard drive. And it can be removed from the user’s PC in the same way as any other program without reducing the performance of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Mozilla Maintenance Service - what is this application?
An optional, but very useful maintenance utility that allows automatic background updating of the search engine without notifying the owner of the personal computer. This technical support team interacts directly with the Microsoft Windows operating system component (UAC - User Account Control) and updates all updates issued by Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation. There is no harm from this. This application does not constantly use the resources of the user’s “machine”; it is activated only when downloading and installing the next search engine updates. If there is a need to pause automatic browser updates, you can disable this function manually.
Disable automatic browser updates
Updates are deactivated through the settings menu of the Mozilla Internet browser.
about:preferences#advanced
Settings/Advanced/Updates
You can leave checking for updates and then decide “to be or not to be,” or you can completely abandon monitoring and work in the current version. It is also possible to select plugins for background system updates.
In addition to disabling automatic browser updates, developers provide Mozilla Firefox users with the ability to remove the Mozilla Maintenance Service.
Removing the Mozilla Maintenance service
You can uninstall the Browser Update Service in the same way as any other software in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
To do this, go to the “Control panel”, then open the “Programs and Features” tab, select the “Mozilla Maintenance Service” program.
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