About:
Firefox (formerly known as Phoenix and Firebird) is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component. It is similar to Galeon, K-Meleon, and Chimera, but it is written using the XUL user interface language and was designed to be cross-platform.

Author:
Mozilla Project <dev __at__ mozilla __dot__ org> [contact developer]

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8.78/10.00 (140 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Tar/BZ2:
http://releases.mozilla.org/[..]4/source/firefox-2.0.0.14-source.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.14/releasenotes/
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/mozilla-firefox
OS X package:
http://releases.mozilla.org/[..].0.0.14/mac/en-US/Firefox%202.0.0.14.dmg
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/www/firefox/
Bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html
Mirror site:
http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[License]		OSI Approved :: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
[Topic]		Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.0.0.14	21-Apr-2008	Mozilla Public License (MPL)

 Articles referencing this project

Red Hat: Updated firefox packages that fix a security bug by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Apr 20th 2008 15:12 SuSE: New MozillaFirefox packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Apr 7th 2008 03:55 Red Hat: Updated firefox packages fix several security bugs by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Mar 30th 2008 14:19 Red Hat: Updated firefox packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Mar 24th 2008 06:21 SuSE: New MozillaFirefox, seamonkey packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Feb 17th 2008 06:44

SuSE: New firefox packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Dec 9th 2007 14:37 Red Hat: Updated firefox packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Dec 2nd 2007 03:26 SuSE: New MozillaFirefox, mozilla, seamonkey packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Oct 28th 2007 07:56 Red Hat: Updated firefox packages fix several security bugs by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, Oct 20th 2007 13:22 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Cool browser
by Alexei A. Korolev - Mar 25th 2007 15:04:49

Guys, your browser is amazin. This is whole web platform, i just find free extentsion submitemnow which act like standalone application. This is really cool!. Please, continue your development!

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[»] Re: Cool browser
by Alexei A. Korolev - Mar 25th 2007 15:15:06

sorry, for second post, i just remember one great firefox ads :) I hope you will glad to see that.

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[»] UI looks
by Samuli T. - Oct 29th 2006 12:48:59

Am I the only one who thinks the UI has taken a step backwards in FF2 release? The icon set has lost it's crisp and clear colours and general looks are just grayish.

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[»] What is there no Environment catergory?
by Niels Elgaard Larsen - Apr 26th 2005 06:21:53

See subj:

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[»] Spyware!
by tooar - Nov 16th 2004 13:51:43

It's a pitty that the Mozilla Foundation decided Firefox to become Spyware [1]. With a lame excuse that they need money, they sell the soul of open source software to ebay or whoever has enough dollars. Maybe they should stop throwing away the money they have for ads in big newspapers and magazins [2]? Really disappointing!

[1] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2004/11/firefox_10_now_1.html
[2] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/10/prweb169813.php

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[»] Re: Spyware!
by Mr.700 - Dec 19th 2004 23:34:36


> It's a pitty that the Mozilla Foundation decided Firefox to
become Spyware [1].

What exactly do you consider spyware? The google start page?

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Mr.700

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[»] Re: Spyware!
by EdMcMan - Jan 3rd 2005 12:24:01


> It's a pitty that the Mozilla Foundation

> decided Firefox to become Spyware [1].

> With a lame excuse that they need money,

> they sell the soul of open source

> software to ebay or whoever has enough

> dollars. Maybe they should stop throwing

> away the money they have for ads in big

> newspapers and magazins [2]? Really

> disappointing!

>

> [1]

> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2004/11/firefox_10_now_1.html

> [2]

> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/10/prweb169813.php


You forgot the link to where the Mozilla foundation has decided Firefox will become spyware.

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[»] Re: Spyware!
by tooar - Jan 3rd 2005 16:22:09


> You forgot the link to where the Mozilla

> foundation has decided Firefox will

> become spyware.


Sorry to say it, but it is more like you don't want to see what is already there.

A quote from link [1]:
"We provide access to search services from a range of sources including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and others you can see in Firefox. We expect to see some funds come to the Foundation as a result of our integrated search."

This has already been done with ebay, ie. ebay pays and search requests that are done through the Firefox toolbar for ebay are sent to a special server so ebay can log them. Of course they claim they won't do any harm with those information and they won't use it and so on. If you believe that...

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[»] Re: Spyware!
by EdMcMan - Jan 3rd 2005 20:09:31


> This has already been done with ebay,

> ie. ebay pays and search requests that

> are done through the Firefox toolbar for

> ebay are sent to a special server so

> ebay can log them. Of course they claim

> they won't do any harm with those

> information and they won't use it and so

> on. If you believe that...

So how you would rather do it. Search ebay without using ebay servers?

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[»] Re: Spyware!
by tooar - Jan 3rd 2005 22:15:09


>

> So how you would rather do it. Search

> ebay without using ebay servers?


I'd be glad if only ebay server had been involved, but the problem was that the search requests were first sent to some 3rd party company. What was even worse is that this action hasn't been made public when the release came out.
Maybe you should try to search google for the topic?

Apart from this, why would a company like ebay pay for the search if they don't get any additional benefit? Even if they hadn't paid for it, they would have been included in the search, but then with the same server that processes the normal search requests from their website.

Fortunately, after lots of protests, Firefox has been fixed.

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