Mozilla Firefox

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Firefox 2 showing the main page of Wikipedia
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Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser for the computer, which uses the Gecko rendering engine. It is made by the Mozilla Foundation. It works on many operating systems. The makers tried to make it very secure.

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[edit] Features

The Firefox Browser has some features which make it easy to work with.

[edit] Add-ons

[edit] Extensions
You can add new functionalities to your browser by installing extensions. These are small programs that, for example, make advertisements disappear, the browser go faster or fill Internet forms easily.

[edit] Themes
By downloading new themes you can change the appearance of the browser (i.e. buttons, colors).

[edit] Download
Download extensions and themes from the Firefox addons page.

[edit] Tabs

Tabbed browsing is used in the browser so you can have more web pages opened in one window.

[edit] Searching

There is a search box in Firefox, you can see it in the top right corner of the window. If you type something into it and press enter, the browser will search the Internet using a search engine like Google or Yahoo!. There are "search suggestions" in Firefox 2: when you start typing something into the search box, suggested words will appear, for example you type "wiki" and the browser will suggest "Wikipedia", if it can use "search suggestions" with the selected search engine.

[edit] Spell checking

Firefox 2 can use spell checking, if you type a word badly into a text box, like the one where you change a Wikipedia page, the program will underline it with a red line, and if you click the right mouse button on that word, it will list words which use proper grammar. For example: You type "chekc" and it will list "check".

[edit] Statistics

Firefox has been downloaded over 250,000,000 times.

[edit] See also