Firefox

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Firefox

• Why Use?

By Rick Rava
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What is Mozilla Firefox?

• Free, cross-platform, graphical web browser
  developed by Mozilla
• Developed by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross
• Most used free and open source application
• Released on November 9, 2004

The Evolution of the Logo
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Common Features

• Integrated pop-up blocker
• Tabbed browsing
• Live bookmarks
• Web standards support
• Extensions mechanism for adding functionality

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Intergration with Technology

• Visit web pages by only typing in their subject
  and not trying to find the web address
• Novell
• Google
• Wikipedia
• CNN

Type CNN and press ENTER
Looks up CNN and takes to page
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No frills appearance!
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Tabbed Browsing

• New tab feature makes switching back and forth
  that much easier!
• Allows users to open multiple pages in the same
  window and easily switch between them

No more of this!
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Cross Platform Support

• Cross-platform Support - Mozilla Firefox runs on
  a wide variety of platforms such as various
  versions of Microsoft Windows, including 98,
  98SE, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Server 2003, Mac
  OS X, and Linux-based operating systems using
  XOrg Server or XFree86

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Different from Internet Explorer

• Does not use a domain/zone security model for
  accessing web pages
• Not deeply integrated into the operating system
• Popup blocking
• Does not support ActiveX (commonly used by
  hackers for security violations)

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Download Manager
Download Manager Allows downloads to be opened
automatically depending on the file type, or
saved directly to disk.
You can pause your download and continue it a
later time
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Security and Privacy
Press CTRL-SHIFT-DEL keys

• Pop-up blocking
• KEEP SPYWARE OUT
• One-click private data deletion
• Prevention of unknown downloads
• Open source software
• Report-A-Bug system
• 500 CASH REWARD
• FREE FIREFOX T-SHIRT

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Pop-up Blocking
Pop-up Blocking - This blocks pop-ups from all
web sites by default, but can be configured to
allow individual sites to show pop-ups. It can
also be turned off entirely to allow pop-ups from
all sites.
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Themes and Extensions

• Themes - Firefox also supports a variety of
  themes/skins for changing its appearance. Themes
  are packages of CSS and image files. Many themes
  can be downloaded from the Mozilla Update web
  site.

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Next Steps
Download Firefox Continue to experiment with new
features of Firefox Research how these features
can be utilized to improve your
productivity! Enjoy!