Mozilla Firefox

However, according to a Microsoft SEC Filing on June 30, 2005, it acknowledged that browsers such as Mozilla are competitive threats to Internet Explorer: "Competitors such as Mozilla offer software that competes with the Internet Explorer Web browsing capabilities of our Windows operating system products."^[36]. See: Kabbalah. Vamos stated that he himself never used it personally.^[34] Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has used Firefox, but he has commented that "so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?"^[35]. Its Intelligence, or beneficial spirit, is Agiel (layga), and its spirit (darker aspect) is Zazel (lzaz). Despite Firefox's apparent gains on Internet Explorer, Microsoft head of Australian operations, Steve Vamos, stated that he did not see Firefox as a threat and that there was not significant demand for the featureset of Firefox amongst Microsoft's users. Its Angel is Cassiel. There is even interest in the Pocket PC community about having Firefox as an option for web browsing. In Hebrew, Saturn is called 'Shabbathai'.

A number of applications are already using Portable Firefox Live to deliver a browser and HTML-based content from CD. This is based on Five Elements which was traditionally used to classify natural elements. Haller has also started development work on Portable Firefox Live, which aims to run on CD-R or other read-only media. Chinese and Japanese culture designate the planet Saturn as "Earth Star". It also uses compression (courtesy of UPX and 7-Zip) to reduce the overall footprint and increase speed. Saturn is a popular setting for science fiction novels and films, although the planet tends to be used as a pretty backdrop rather than as an important part of the plot. It includes a specialized launcher that adjusts extensions and themes to work as they are moved from computer to computer. More details, see Aspects of Saturn.

Haller released the first packaged version and then led development from there. Optical aid (a large pair of binoculars or a telescope) magnifying at least 20X is required to clearly resolve Saturn's rings for most people. John T. Saturn appears to the naked eye in the night sky as a bright, yellowish star varying usually between magnitude +1 and 0 and takes approximately 29 and a half years to make a complete circuit of the ecliptic against the background constellations of the zodiac. It arose out of a mozillaZine thread in June of 2004. While it is a rewarding target for observation for most of the time it is visible in the sky, Saturn and its rings are best seen when the planet is at or near opposition (the configuration of a planet when it is at an elongation of 180° and thus appears opposite the Sun in the sky.) In the opposition on January 13, 2005, Saturn appeared at its brightest until 2031, mostly due to a favourable orientation of the rings relative to the Earth. Portable Firefox is a repackaged version of Firefox designed to run from a USB flash drive, iPod, external hard drive or any other portable media. The primary mission ends in 2008 when the spacecraft has completed 74 orbits around the planet.

And a start-up, Flock (formerly Round Two, MozSource and more formerly E-Flo), plans to build enhancements for Firefox.^[33] Firefox is also used by the 3B browser, which browses the web as a 3D city of web sites or a 3D store. As of 2005, Cassini is conducting multiple flybys of Titan and icy satellites. The current version of Netscape, known as Netscape Browser or Netscape 8, combines the functionalities of Firefox and Internet Explorer. Huygens descended onto the surface of Titan on January 14, 2005, sending a flood of data during the atmospheric descent and after the landing. A number of commercialized versions of the Firefox browser have developed outside the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation. The orbiter completed two Titan flybys before releasing the Huygens probe on December 25, 2004. Google released two new Google Extensions for Firefox on December 14, 2005, further affirming the company's interest in Firefox. In June 2004, it had conducted a close flyby of Phoebe sending back high-resolution images and data.

Search engine companies including Google, Yahoo! and A9.com now also offer Firefox extensions for accessing their services, in addition to their original Internet-Explorer add-ons. Before the SOI, Cassini had already studied the system extensively. also recommends Firefox as the browser for its Blogger.com weblog service.^[31] On May 18, 2005, eBay announced support for Firefox for its eBay Picture Manager.^[32]. On July 1, 2004, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft performed the SOI (Saturn Orbit Insertion) maneuver and entered into orbit around Saturn. (Link prefetching involves a standards-compliant optimization technique that utilizes the browser's idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future.) Google, Inc. They also discovered the small Maxwell and Keeler gaps. Since March 30, 2005, the Google search engine has utilized the link prefetching feature of Firefox for faster searching. The probes discovered and confirmed several new satellites orbiting near or within the planet's rings.

Since the pre-1.0 stages, a number of well-known websites and web applications, including Gmail, have supported (and in some cases, required) the use of Firefox. Saturn's gravity was used to direct the spacecraft's trajectory towards Uranus. ^[30]. Unfortunately, during the flyby, the probe's camera stuck and some planned imaging was lost. In December 2005, it was announced that Dell UK were to start shipping the Firefox browser pre-installed on their PCs. More close-up images of Saturn's moons were acquired, as well as evidence of changes in the atmosphere and the rings. The Networking Services and Information Technology department of the University of Chicago started to include both Firefox and Thunderbird in its connectivity package for all incoming students on the third quarter of 2005.^[29]. Almost a year later, in August 1981, Voyager 2 continued the study of the Saturn system.

IBM encourages its employees to use Firefox as the company's standard web browser, with support from the company's help desk staff. The flyby also changed spacecraft's trajectory out from the plane of the solar system. According to a CNET article published on May 12, 2005, about 30,000 of IBM's staff (about 10% of the total) already use Firefox. However, it also proved that Titan's atmosphere is impenetrable in visible wavelengths, so no surface details were seen. Those companies remained reluctant to publicize the migration, due to in-house concerns that this might damage their relationship with Microsoft.^[28]. Voyager 1 performed a close flyby of Titan greatly increasing our knowledge of the atmosphere of the moon. During the FOSDEM 2005 conference, Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, said that he knew "a few companies" that had deployed the Firefox browser or the Thunderbird mail client across a million seats. Surface features of various moons were seen for the first time.

From time to time, the SFX team or SFX members launch marketing events organized at the Spread Firefox website. It sent back the first high-resolution images of the planet, rings, and the satellites. The site lists the top 250 referrers. In November 1980, the Voyager 1 probe visited the Saturn system. The portal enhanced the "Get Firefox" button program, giving users "referrer points" as an incentive. [9]. On September 14, 2004, a community-marketing portal dubbed "Spread Firefox" (SFX) debuted along with the Firefox Preview Release, creating a centralized space for the discussion of various marketing techniques. It also measured the temperature of Titan.

For example, Blake Ross and Asa Dotzler organized a series of events dubbed "marketing week". The spacecraft also studied the rings; among the discoveries were the thin F-ring and the fact that dark gaps in the rings are bright when viewed towards the Sun, or in other words, they are not empty of material. The rapid adoption of Firefox apparently accelerated in part due to a series of aggressive community-marketing campaigns since 2004. Resolution was not good enough to discern surface features, however. It should be noted that a download count is not a user count, as a single download can be installed over many machines, or one person can download the software multiple times. Low-resolution images were acquired of the planet and few of its moons. The download counter is available as an RSS feed, so that the Firefox download can be added on websites to keep track of the number of downloads in near-realtime. It flew within 20,000 km of the planet's cloudtops.

These download counts did not include downloads using software updates and downloads from third-party websites. Saturn was first visited by Pioneer 11 in September 1979. None of the Mozilla Foundation's previous product releases experienced that kind of growth. Due to the tidal forces of Saturn, the moons are currently not at the same position as they were when they were first formed (for a timeline of discovery dates, see Timeline of natural satellites). In other words, the download rate remained fairly stable. Saturn's most noteworthy moon is Titan, the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere. Cumulative downloads increased in a near-linear fashion during the first quarter of 2005. These are compared to Earth's moon in the table below.

Europe, according to a study released by the firm XiTi on 2006-01-08, generally had higher percentages of Firefox use, with an average of 20%. Seven of the moons are massive enough to have collapsed into a spheroid under their own gravitation. According to several sources (as listed in statistics reference), by November 2005, Firefox had around 9.4% of global market share, and 10% for North America. The precise figure will never be certain as the orbiting chunks of ice in Saturn's rings are all technically moons, and it is difficult to draw a distinction between a large ring particle and a tiny moon. Web-surfers have adopted Firefox rapidly, despite the dominance of Internet Explorer in the browser market. Saturn has a large number of moons. This is rarely a Firefox-specific problem, and is usually caused by the respective websites using code that does not adhere to W3C standards—such as code specific to Internet Explorer's quirks—or utilizing ActiveX controls or VBScript scripts, which are not supported in Firefox. Nevertheless, the Cassini imaging team kept looking for spokes in images of the rings, and the spokes reappeared in images taken September 5, 2005.

Users switching from Internet Explorer sometimes find that certain websites do not render as expected in Firefox. Some scientists speculated that the spokes would not be visible again until 2007, based on models attempting to describe spoke formation. ^[27] Another known frequent cause of memory leaks is misbehaving extensions, most notably Adblock. The spokes were not visible when Cassini arrived at Saturn in early 2004. This has been reported as memory leaks ^[26]; Mozilla developers claim it is sometimes at least partially an effect of blazing fast backwards and forwards (FastBack) feature. They appear to be a seasonal phenomenon, disappearing in the Saturnian midwinter/midsummer and reappearing as Saturn comes closer to equinox. Another mentioned criticism is that a small percentage of users complain of Firefox using much more memory than other browsers. Twenty-five years later, Cassini observed the spokes again.

IE also launches faster than Firefox on Windows as some of its components are loaded at Windows startup. However, the precise mechanism behind the spokes is still unknown. Other Gecko-based browsers such as K-Meleon, which use platform-native user interface implementations, generally run faster than Firefox. It is assumed that they are connected to electromagnetic interactions, as they rotate almost synchronously with the magnetosphere of Saturn. The non-Windows-native XUL implementation of the user interface may be the cause of this perceived delay. The spokes appear dark against the lit side of the rings, and light when seen against the unlit side. Some note that Firefox takes longer to launch than other browsers such as Internet Explorer or Opera on Windows. The Voyager spacecraft found radial features in the B ring, called spokes, which could not be explained in this manner, as their persistence and rotation around the rings were not consistent with orbital mechanics.

This difference of opinion was one of the motivating factors behind the development of the Flock browser, which is a Firefox fork. Until 1980, the structure of the rings of Saturn was explained exclusively as the action of gravitational forces. However, not all users wish to install extensions for the features they want, preferring to see them included in the official software package. In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft revealed the first views of the backlit side in 25 years. (The developers state in response that they intend for Firefox to be a fairly minimal browser in order to reduce software bloat and bugs, while retaining a high degree of extensibility.) Most of these features, and many others, exist as installable Firefox extensions, or third-party software. From Earth, we cannot appreciate this because the Earth cannot view Saturn from an angle that displays the backlit side of the rings, and our only views of it are from spacecraft. Many users observe that the developers have not implemented frequently requested features. The side of Saturn's rings that is lit by the Sun looks very different to the backlit side, which is darker overall and appears almost black in the thick B ring.

Firefox has at times attracted criticism for lacking features found in some other browsers. Compare images from the Cassini spacecraft taken in March and October 2004, and a Pioneer 11 picture from 1979:. No publicly known attacks since its launch have been discovered. [8]. Another security source, SecurityFocus, reports no known vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.5.0.1, versus 65 unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 6 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2. The atmosphere is composed of molecular oxygen gas (O₂) and is thought to be a product of the disintegration of water ice from the rings into its components, oxygen and hydrogen. As of February 2006, Secunia has reported 2 unpatched vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.x (with the most serious one marked "less critical"), versus 21 for Internet Explorer (with the most serious one marked "highly critical"). Data from the Cassini space probe indicates that the rings of Saturn possess their own atmosphere, independent of that of the planet itself.

While similar to other "responsible disclosure" policies operated by software vendors such as Microsoft, this policy falls short of the full disclosure principle favored by some security researchers. Still more structure in the rings actually consists of spiral waves raised by the moons' periodic gravitational perturbations. This approach aims to minimize the exploitation of publicly known vulnerabilities and to give the developers time to issue a patch. Other gaps arise from resonances between the orbital period of particles in the gap and that of a more massive moon further out; Mimas maintains the Cassini division in this manner. The Mozilla Foundation has implemented a policy on security bugs in order to help contributors to deal with security vulnerabilities.^[25] The policy restricts access to a security-related bug report to members of the security team until after Mozilla has shipped a fix for the problem. Some gaps are cleared out by the passage of tiny moonlets such as Pan, many more of which may yet be undiscovered, and some ringlets seem to be maintained by the gravitational effects of small shepherd satellites such as Prometheus and Pandora. In addition, the Mozilla Foundation operates a "bug bounty" scheme: people who report a valid critical security bug receive a US$500 cash reward (for each report) and a Mozilla T-shirt.^[23] According to the Mozilla Foundation, this "bug bounty" system aims to "encourage more people to find and report security bugs in our products, so that we can make our products even more secure than they already are."^[24] Also, all users can have access to the source code of Mozilla Firefox, to the internal design documentation, to forum discussions, and to other materials that can help in finding bugs. This structure is thought to arise from the gravitational pull of Saturn's many moons in several different ways.

Once placed in the software, changes become visible for anyone else to consider, protest against, or improve.^[22]. While the largest gaps in the rings, such as the Cassini division and Encke division, could be seen from Earth, the Voyager spacecrafts discovered the rings to have an intricate structure of thousands of thin gaps and ringlets. At least one person besides the coder reviews proposed software changes, and typically yet another person carries out a "super-review". This theory is not widely accepted today, since Saturn's rings are thought to be unstable over periods of millions of years and therefore of relatively recent origin. Open source advocates argue that an important characteristic of Firefox security lies in the fact that anyone can see its source code and that it therefore must rely upon sound security mechanisms rather than security through obscurity. The second theory is that the rings were never part of a moon, but are instead left over from the original nebular material that Saturn formed out of. Some of Firefox's key security features include the use of the sandbox security model^[20], same origin policy and external protocol whitelisting ^[21]. A variation of this theory is that the moon disintegrated after being struck by a large comet or asteroid.

By default, Firefox downloads all files to a user's desktop on Windows and Mac OS X or to the user's home directory on GNU/Linux, but users can easily configure it to prompt for a specific download location. One theory, originally proposed by Édouard Roche in the 19th century, is that the rings were once a moon of Saturn whose orbit decayed until it came close enough to be ripped apart by tidal forces (see Roche limit). Users can configure the browser to either open downloaded files automatically or save them directly to the disk. There are two main theories regarding the origin of Saturn's rings. Firefox also includes a customizable download manager. They extend from 6,630 km to 120,700 km above Saturn's equator, and are composed of silica rock, iron oxide, and ice particles ranging in size from specks of dust to the size of a small automobile. However, use of web feeds (RSS/Atom) has grown tremendously recently, making RSS-support an essential feature for a growing number of people. The rings can be viewed using a quite modest modern telescope or with a good pair of binoculars.

When this feature was first introduced in version 1.0 PR, some users worried that Firefox was beginning to include non-essential features, and succumb to bloat, much like the Mozilla Suite. In 1675, Giovanni Domenico Cassini determined that Saturn's ring was actually composed of multiple smaller rings with gaps between them; the largest of these gaps was later named the Cassini Division. Powered by RSS or Atom feeds, "Live Bookmarks", another feature of Firefox, allow users to dynamically monitor changes to their favorite news sources. The riddle of the rings was not solved until 1655 by Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope much more powerful than the ones available to Galileo in his time. Firefox supports a number of extensions that assist in web development, including the powerful Venkman JavaScript debugger. They are arranged in a line parallel to the zodiac, and the middle one [Saturn itself] is about three times the size of the lateral ones [the edges of the rings]." He also described Saturn as having "ears." In 1612 the plane of the rings was oriented directly at the Earth and the rings appeared to vanish, and then in 1613 they reappeared again, further confusing Galileo. While not installed by default, the tools become available via a "custom" install. He wrote to the Duke of Tuscany that "Saturn is not alone but is composed of three, which almost touch one another and never move nor change with respect to one another.

Firefox aficionados claim that no other browser includes the DOM Inspector, and that Firefox's JavaScript Console surpasses the consoles available in other browsers. The rings were first observed by Galileo Galilei in 1610 with his telescope, but he was unable to identify them as such. Like the Mozilla Suite, Firefox comes with two web-development tools: a DOM Inspector and a JavaScript Console. Saturn is probably best known for its planetary rings, which make it one of the most visually remarkable objects in the solar system. Because of the use of DTD and property files for storing the string literals displayed to users, even users without a programming background can easily complete part of the internationalization and localization process, requiring only a simple text editor. [7] The cause of the change is unknown. Contributors throughout the world have collaborated in translating the Firefox browser into many frequently used languages/locales, including some of the least often supported locales, such as Chichewa, but excluding Latvian, Malay, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi and Persian. While approaching Saturn in 2004, the Cassini spacecraft found that the radio rotation period of Saturn had increased slightly, to approximately 10 h 45 m 45 s (± 36 s).

However, it may occasionally cause problems, especially with extensions. System III, based on radio emissions from the planet, has a period of 10 h 39 min 22.4 s (810.8°/d); because it is very close in value to System II, it has largely superseded it. This functionality is useful for users who dual-boot their machines. All other Saturnian latitudes have been assigned a rotation period of 10 h 39 min 24 s (810.76°/d), which is System II. Therefore, a profile may be used on multiple platforms, so long as all of the platforms can access the profile (e.g., the profile is stored on a FAT32 partition accessible from both Windows and GNU/Linux). Since Saturn does not rotate on its axis at a uniform rate, two rotation periods have been assigned to it (as in Jupiter's case): System I has a period of 10 h 14 min 00 s (844.3°/d) and encompasses the Equatorial Zone, which extends from the northern edge of the South Equatorial Belt to the southern edge of the North Equatorial Belt. Firefox uses the same format to store users' profiles (which contain their personal browser settings) even on different operating systems. HST imaging of the south polar region indicates the presence of a jet stream, but no strong polar vortex nor any hexagonal standing wave[6].

Builds for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition also exist. An apparently permanent hexagonal wave pattern around the polar vortex in the atmosphere at about 78°N was first noted in the Voyager images[4] [5]. Operating systems not officially supported by the Mozilla developers, but known to run the browser include:. Astronomers using infrared imaging have shown that Saturn has a warm polar vortex, and is the only planet in the solar system known to do so. Since the Mozilla Foundation makes the Firefox source code available, users can also compile and run Firefox on a variety of other architectures and operating systems. The careful study of these episodes reveals interesting patterns; if it holds another storm will occur in ~2020.(Kidger 1992). Firefox does not officially support Windows 95, but reportedly functions properly after the application of a few tweaks.^[16]. Previous Great White Spots were observed in 1876, 1903, 1933, and 1960, with the 1933 storm being the most famous.

Releases available on the primary distribution site support the following operating systems^[15]:. The 1990 storm was an example of a Great White Spot, a unique but short-lived Saturnian phenomenon with a roughly 30-year periodicity. Mozilla Firefox runs on a wide variety of platforms. Saturn's usually-bland atmosphere occasionally exhibits long-lived ovals and other features common on Jupiter; in 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope observed an enormous white cloud near Saturn's equator which was not present during the Voyager encounters and in 1994 another, smaller storm was observed. Some of the Mozilla standards like XBL are also making their way to open standards (via WHATWG). Since then, however, Earth-based telescopy has improved to the point where regular observations can be made. Also, work continues on implementing standards currently missing such as APNG and XForms and improving support for SVG. Saturn's finer cloud patterns were not observed until the Voyager flybys.

Firefox has already implemented most of CSS Level 2 and some of the not-yet-completed CSS Level 3 standard. Saturn's winds are among the Solar System's fastest; Voyager data indicates peak easterly winds of 500 m/s (1116 mph)Solarviews. Mozilla contributors constantly improve Firefox's support for existing standards. Saturn's atmosphere exhibits a banded pattern similar to Jupiter's (in fact, the nomenclature is the same), but Saturn's bands are much fainter and they're also much wider near the equator. Firefox also supports PNG images and variable transparency as opposed to Internet Explorer, which will not support it fully until the not-yet-released version 7.^[14] Indeed, Internet Explorer's lack of support for PNG images has occasioned much debate, as many web developers want to move away from the old GIF format, which does not have the same capabilities and image quality as PNG. An additional proposed mechanism by which Saturn may generate some of its heat is the "raining out" of droplets of helium deep in Saturn's interior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydrogen. Firefox has extensive support for most basic standards including HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, MathML, DTD, XSL and XPath. Most of the extra energy is generated by the Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism (slow gravitational compression), but this alone may not be sufficient to explain Saturn's heat production.

The Mozilla Foundation takes pride in Firefox's compliance with existing standards, especially W3C web standards. Saturn has a very hot interior, reaching 12000 K at the core, and it radiates more energy into space than it receives from the Sun. Experimental features like HTTP pipelining often lurk hidden in the about:config menu. Traces of various ices are also present. This mechanism enables features such as single-window mode and error pages, or speeding up page rendering by various tweaks. Saturn's interior is similar to Jupiter's, having a rocky core at the center, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer above that, and a molecular hydrogen layer above that. Additionally, Firefox stores many hidden preferences that users can access by typing about:config in the address bar. This is only an average value, however; Saturn's upper atmosphere is less dense and its core is considerably more dense than water.

A Firefox installation can keep all extensions and themes available on the Mozilla Update site up-to-date through Firefox's interface, which periodically checks for updates to installed themes and extensions. Saturn is also the only one of the Solar System's planets less dense than water, with an average specific density of 0.69. Beyond adding a new theme, users can customize Firefox's interface by moving and manipulating its various buttons, fields, and menus, and likewise by adding and deleting entire toolbars. The other gas planets are also oblate, but to a lesser degree. The Mozilla Update web site offers many themes for downloading. This is the result of its rapid rotation and fluid state. Themes consist of packages of CSS and image files. 108,728 km).

Firefox also supports a variety of themes/skins, which change its appearance. It is flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator; its equatorial and polar diameters vary by almost 10% (120,536 km vs. Occasionally, an extension becomes part of the official product (for example tabbed browsing, a feature which proved popular through the MultiZilla extension, eventually became part of standard Mozilla). Saturn is an oblate spheroid. One can view the extension system as a ground for experimentation, where one can test new functionalities. . Many features formerly part of the Mozilla Suite, such as the ChatZilla IRC client and a calendar, have become Firefox extensions. [2], [3].

Wikipedia editors using Firefox v0.8-1.0.7 can even download a customised toolbar for Wikipedia editing. The Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese cultures refer to the planet as the earth star (土星), based on the Five Elements. Through extensions (installed via XPInstall modules), users may activate new features, such as mouse gestures, advertisement blocking, proxy server switching, and debugging tools. Its symbol is a stylized representation of the god's sickle (Unicode: ♄). The design of Firefox aims at high extensibility. It was named after the Roman god Saturn. When a user enters a keyword into the address bar that is not recognized by Firefox (for example, simply typing "apple"), it automatically redirects the user to the first result yielded by a Google search for the word (or words). Saturn has a prominent system of rings, consisting of mostly ice particles with a smaller amount of rocky debris.

Custom keywords are provided "out of the box" for Google Search, Google Stock Search, Dictionary.com, Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia. It is a gas giant, the second-largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. For example, using a custom keyword, a user can type "google apple" into the address bar and be redirected to the results of a Google search for "apple". Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. This feature allows users to access their bookmarks from the location bar using keywords (and an optional query parameter).
. Additionally, Firefox supports the "custom keyword" feature introduced by the Mozilla Suite. Ben Bova's novel Saturn (2003) is about a spacecraft traveling toward the planet, although Saturn itself does not figure greatly in the story.

Users may download more search plugins (including one for Wikipedia) from the Mycroft project or remove any unwanted ones. On her forehead is the planet's symbol. By default, Firefox allows users to search Google, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Creative Commons, Dictionary.com, and eBay. Her birth is thought to bring destruction to the world, as she's known as the sailor of death and rebirth. Firefox also sports a built-in search toolbar with an extensible search engine listing. In the anime Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Sailor Saturn is a guardian representing the planet. Also, if the user's exact query does not appear anywhere on the page, the "Find" box turns red. In the sci-fi anime Cowboy Bebop (1998), in the year 2068 a war was fought on Titan.

As the user types more of the word, Firefox refines its search. In Michael McCollum's novel The Clouds of Saturn (1998), SparrowHawk pilots Larson Sands and Halley Trevanon fight against the Northern Alliance during a time when the Sun has flared out of control and boiled Earth's oceans away. With this feature enabled, a user can simply begin typing a word while viewing a web page, and Firefox automatically searches for it and highlights the first instance found. Stephen Baxter's novel Titan (1997) is focused on the moon Titan, but contains vivid depictions of a journey through the Saturnian system. First, Firefox has an incremental find feature known as "find as you type". The Citadel research and mining space station, setting of the computer game System Shock (1994), is in orbit of Saturn for most of the game. The browser has a number of features which help users find information. Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice (1988) is partly set on a fictional Saturn, populated by giant sandworms.

Firefox 1.5 (Windows version) is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments. Warhammer 40,000's universe (1987) places the headquarters of the Grey Knights of the Ordo Malleus in Saturn's moons, owing to their defensive capability. It also supports various forms of keyboard navigation such as tabbing navigation and caret navigation (and in some builds, spatial navigation). In a later episode from 1986, "Money is Everything," which takes place in the year 2006, Titan has been terraformed by humans. Firefox also belongs in the group of browsers which were first to adopt customizable pop-up blocking. An episode of the cartoon series Transformers from 1985, "The God Gambit," reveals that humanoid aliens have a thriving civilization on the moon Titan. This feature originated in the Mozilla Suite, which in turn had borrowed the feature from the popular MultiZilla extension for Mozilla. The science fiction anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982–1983) has one episode that takes place in Saturn's rings, and the beginning of the movie adaptation The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? takes place near the moon Titan and Saturn's rings.

Firefox supports tabbed browsing, which allows users to open multiple web pages in the same browser window. The film Saturn 3 (1980) is mostly set on one of Saturn's moons, but also features a journey through the planet's rings. The design of Firefox's option panels leaves many of the infrequently used options found in the Mozilla Suite not visible in Firefox. Other Saturnian moons are visible but not named. As a result, the interface appears less cluttered than that of many other internet suites. Saturn's moon Titan is also briefly mentioned and depicted. Developers put in a large amount of work towards simplifying Firefox's user interface. In the sixth book of the Yoko Tsuno comic book series (Les Trois soleils de Vinéa, 1976), a small part of the action takes place on a Vinean space station in orbit around Saturn.

Those interested can add (as extensions and plugins) many features not packaged with Firefox. Douglas Trumbull's film Silent Running (1972) features an ark-like spacecraft traveling through the Saturnian system. The developers of Firefox aim to produce a browser that "just works" for most casual users. When the film version targeted the same spacecraft to Jupiter, the travel to Saturn was retconned to match in the sequel novel 2010: Odyssey Two. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and future releases of Camino will also include the Java Embedding plugin,^[13] which allow Mac OS X users to run Java applets with the latest 1.4 and 5.0 versions of Java (the default Java software shipped by Apple is not compatible with any browser, except its own Safari). Clarke's later novel Imperial Earth (1976) takes place partially at a human colony on Titan. Likely goals for Firefox include:^[12]. Clarke's novel version of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a spacecraft visits the Saturnian system.

^[11]. In Arthur C. Mozilla is developing versions 2.0 and 3.0 simultaneously in order to ship front-end innovation in version 2.0 built on a more stable back-end, while completing major architectural changes for version 3.0. In the Star Trek universe (1966–), Saturn is used for the Starfleet Academy Flight Range. Development for version 2.0 will occur on the 1.8 branch from which version 1.5 was released, with release coming off of the yet-to-be-created 1.8.1 branch, while development on version 3.0 occurs simultaneously on the Mozilla trunk. Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan (1959) is partly set on Titan, Saturn's best known moon. According to the roadmap, future Firefox development will include version 2.0 and version 3.0. In Isaac Asimov's short story The Martian Way (1952), Martian colonists use a chunk of ice from Saturn's rings to bring water to the dry world.

Some of the changes:. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos (1928–), Saturn was known as Cykranosh in the Hyperborean Era, both Tsathoggua and Atlach-Nacha came to Earth from there, and Tsathoggua's paternal uncle Hziulquoigmnzhah still resides there. On November 29, 2005, Firefox 1.5 was officially released. P. In an attempt to dissuade end-users from downloading the preview versions, "Deer Park" versions do not use the standard Mozilla Firefox branding. In H. However, Mozilla Foundation decided to change the version number of the next major release from "1.1" to "1.5", since it contained more new features than originally planned. The drawing shows the surface of Saturn as a rocky, desolate, solid surface.

"Deer Park" was originally destined to become Firefox 1.1. The rings are brightly illuminated by the sun, and an elliptical shadow is cast on them by the planet. I was riding LIRR a few weeks ago and saw the name go by and I thought it sounded nice." Therefore, this name probably references Deer Park, New York, a CDP on Long Island. It contains a black and white illustration showing what night might look like from the surface of the planet. According to Goodger, "Deer Park is not Deer Park, Victoria, but just a symbolic name. The book describes Saturn as having 8 satellites and 3 rings. Several builds codenamed "Deer Park" were released in 2005. The unwitting adventurers in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet (1877) pass within 415,000,000 miles of Saturn while riding on a comet.

The other codenames included in the Firefox roadmap derive from an actual roadmap of a journey through California to Phoenix, Arizona.^[9]. Micromégas forms a close friendship with the secretary of the Academy of Saturn, who accompanies him to Earth. Ben Goodger, the lead developer of Firefox, who grew up in Auckland, chose these codenames. Saturn's citizens are « only a thousand fathoms high », have 72 senses and live for about 15,000 years. These have a basis in real locations, with codenames such as Three Kings, Royal Oak, One Tree Hill, Mission Bay, and Greenlane all referencing suburbs in Auckland, New Zealand, and the name Whangamata coming from a small seaside town on the Coromandel Peninsula, southeast of Auckland in New Zealand. In Voltaire's Micromégas (1752), the eponymous hero arrives at Saturn first (Uranus and Neptune were unknown then). Throughout its development, Firefox versions have had internal codenames.

Pre-1.0 releases suffered many issues with extensions, as the code for handling them changed from version to version. Firefox has developed considerably since its first release as Phoenix on September 23, 2002. For this reason, software distributors who distribute patched or modified versions of Firefox cannot use the Firefox icon. Although Firefox uses open source core software, free licensing does not extend to the artwork.

The Firefox icon functions as a trademark used to designate the official Mozilla build of the Firefox software. The logo depicts a stylized fox, since the Red Panda (to which the term "Firefox" was originally referred^[7]) did not "conjure up the right imagery" for Hicks.^[8] The specific logo won selection because it makes an impression, while still not "shouting" with overdone artwork. Jon Hicks designed the icon for Firefox 0.8 and up. The release of Firefox 0.8 in February 2004 saw the introduction of new branding efforts, including new icons.

Such opinion held that the early releases of Firefox sported "reasonable" visual designs, but did not regard them as of a standard equivalent to many "professionally" released software packages. Some people have noted that free software frequently suffers from poor icon and user interface design and from a lack of a strong visual identity. The adoption of a new visual identity marks one of Firefox's most visible enhancements from its previous versions. To avoid any potential further name changes, the Mozilla Foundation began the process of registering Firefox as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in December 2003.^[6] As "Firefox" already existed as a registered trademark in the United Kingdom, the Mozilla Foundation licensed the name from the trademark's owner.

The Mozilla Foundation chose the name "Firefox" for its similarity to "Firebird", but also for its uniqueness in the computing industry. However, continuing pressure from the FLOSS community forced another change, and on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox (or Firefox for short). In late April, following an apparent name change to Firebird browser for a few hours, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird in order to avoid confusion with the Firebird database server. The new name, Firebird, provoked mixed reactions, particularly since the free database software Firebird uses the same name.

The Phoenix name survived until April 14, 2003, when it changed due to trademark issues with the BIOS manufacturer, Phoenix Technologies (who produce a BIOS-based browser called Phoenix FirstWare Connect). When sufficiently developed, binaries for public testing appeared in September 2002 under the name Phoenix. The project which became Firefox started as an experimental branch of the Mozilla Suite called m/b (or mozilla/browser). The Mozilla Foundation will continue giving support (such as CVS hosting) for the Mozilla community developers.

These community releases will be called SeaMonkey, and will start out at version 1.0 to avoid any possible confusion for organizations or people still wanting to use the original Mozilla Suite. The Mozilla community (as opposed to the Foundation) will release the next version. The Foundation continues to maintain the 1.7.x branch because of its continued use by many corporate users, and because makers of other software still often bundle the product. On March 10, 2005, the Foundation announced that official releases of Mozilla would cease with the 1.7.x series.

The Mozilla Foundation had intended to make the Mozilla Suite obsolete and to replace it with Firefox. Initially, these add-ons raised security concerns, so with the release of Firefox 0.9, the Mozilla Foundation opened Mozilla Update, a website containing themes and extensions "approved" as not harmful. Through Firefox's support of XUL, users may extend their browser's capabilities by applying themes and extensions. Mozilla Firefox retains the cross-platform nature of the original Mozilla browser by using the XUL user interface markup language.

To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a pared-down browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. They believed that the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. .

As of November 2005, estimates suggest that Firefox's usage share is around 9.4% of overall browser usage (See market adoption below), with its highest usage in Finland (nearly 40% as of January 2006). Firefox has attracted attention as an alternative to other browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox became the first such browser to achieve wide adoption. Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality.

Before its 1.0 release, Firefox had already gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes^[2] and the Wall Street Journal.^[3] With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after the initial 1.0 release, Firefox became one of the most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among home users.^[4] On October 19, 2005, Firefox had its 100 millionth download, just 344 days after the release of version 1.0.^[5] Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005, with more than 2 million downloads within the first 36 hours. Mozilla Firefox is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers.^[1] The browser began as a fork of the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite; Firefox has since become the foundation's main development focus (along with its Thunderbird mail and news client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release. BBC News. The assault on software giant Microsoft.

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Prentice Hall PTR (2005), ISBN 0131870041. Firefox and Thunderbird Garage. Hofmann, Chris, Marcia Knous, & John Hedtke. O'Reilly (2005), ISBN 0-596-00939-9.

Don't Click on the Blue E!: Switching to Firefox. Granneman, Scott. MozillaZine. ^  Firefox a threat.

BBC News. ^  The assault on software giant Microsoft. ZDNet. ^  Microsoft: Firefox does not threaten IE's market share.

MozillaNews. ^  Round Two looks to launch enhanced Firefox. eBay. ^  eBay Picture Manager Enhancements.

^  Where can I upgrade my browser? Blogger Help. blakeross.com. ^  Firefox shipping on Dell UK. Inside Aebrahim's Head.

^  UChicago to Distribute Firefox and Thunderbird. ZDNet UK. ^  Firefox sneaks into the enterprise. Mozilla.org Bugzilla.

^  Bug 319262 - Significant memory leak. InternetWeek. ^  Firefox 1.5: Not Ready For Prime Time?. Mozilla.org.

^  Handling Mozilla Security Bugs. Mozilla.org. ^  Mozilla Security Bug Bounty FAQ. Mozilla.org.

^  Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program. Mozilla.org. ^  Hacking Mozilla. Neil Turner's weblog.

^  External Protocol Whitelisting. After installation, they have full access to the operating system (with the user's privilege level) via XPCOM-interfaces. ^  Extensions, however, are not sandboxed at all. ^  Firefox Port to RISC OS project page.

freshports.org. ^  FreshPort entry on Firefox. Mozilla.org. ^  Firefox release notes for the 1.x series.

Details a procedure to install Firefox on Windows 95 and the original release of Windows 98. Source: John Haller's website. ^  Run Firefox in Windows 95 (and Windows 98 original release). Mozilla.org.

^  Firefox System Requirements. We have certainly heard the clear feedback from the web design community that per-pixel alpha is a really important feature.". We've actually had this on our radar for a long time, and have had it supported in the code for a while now. In the blog entry, Chris Wilson said that Microsoft would soon "[s]upport the alpha channel in PNG images [in Internet Explorer 7].

Source: Internet Explorer weblog. ^  IE7 beta 1 – A few details… (April 22, 2005). MozillaZine. ^  Mozilla to include Java Embedding plugin.

A document that describes the product requirements for Firefox 2, and also anticipates an interim milestone marker for Firefox 1.5. [37]. ^  Mozilla Wiki. Source: Asa Dotzler's weblog.

^  1.8 alpha 6 around the corner (December 26, 2004). ^  Ben Goodger discusses the Firefox update system (May 2, 2005). ^  Mozilla Firefox Roadmap (see also: Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Roadmap). John Hicks' weblog.

^  Branding Firefox. Mozilla.org. ^  Mozilla Firefox - Brand Name Frequently Asked Questions. ^  Firefox trademark, USPTO.

^  Mozilla Firefox Download Counts. (Your children in college are already using it.)". The article states that "With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too. December 19, 2004.

^  Stross, New York Times. It's not only more secure but also more modern and advanced, with tabbed browsing, which allows multiple pages to be open on one screen, and a better pop-up ad blocker than the belated one Microsoft recently added to IE.". I recommend instead Mozilla Firefox, which is free at www.mozilla.org. Walter Mossberg wrote : "I suggest dumping Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, which has a history of security breaches.

^  Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2004. ^  Forbes, September 29, 2004. ^  Mozilla contributors list, Mozilla.org. RISC OS (ARM)^[19].

SkyOS. BeOS. OpenBSD. NetBSD.

PC-BSD. FreeBSD^[18]. AIX^[17]. OS/2 and its successor, eComStation.

Solaris (x86 and SPARC). Many Linux distributions come with Mozilla Firefox already installed. Linux-based operating systems using X.Org Server or XFree86. At the 2005 WWDC, Apple programmers created a Firefox version for Mac OS X on the Intel platform, which worked well.

Mac OS X. A version for USB Smart Drives exists (see "Portable Firefox" below). Various versions of Microsoft Windows, including 98, 98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Server 2003. Anti-phishing features.

Improvements to the search service. Download resuming across browser sessions, detection of signed executables. Accessibility compliance. Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search enhancements.

Extension system enhancements. Specific options per site. Tabbed Browsing improvements. New "Places" interface for Bookmark and History.

Firefox 1.5 also includes a backlog of bug fixes that were fixed between the 0.9 and the 1.0 release which were previously unavailable due to branching from the trunk around the 0.9 release. Gecko 1.8, an updated version of Firefox's rendering engine. Users will have the option of clearing all privacy-related settings simply by exiting the browser or by using a keyboard shortcut, depending on their settings. A "Clear Private Data" action to allow a person to clear their privacy related information without manually clicking the "Clear All" button.

A new, reorganized options dialog box for changing settings of the browser. Support for the non-standard HTML canvas element. See Firefox 1.5's SVG status page, or to see SVG in action visit the SVG repository. This move makes Firefox the second major browser to support some form of SVG natively (Opera 8.0, released on April 19, 2005 supports most of the SVG 1.1 Tiny Specification).

Partial support for SVG 1.1 Full Specification. An improved Software Update System that will ease distribution of important security patches and help keep users up-to-date.^[10].