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The MozillaFirefox Project

MozillaFirefox(tm) is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and MacOSX and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over InternetExplorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows. Read more about the browser at the Mozilla Firefox Project Page.

It's mostly written by Ben Goodger, a New Zealander now living in America.

This is the new name for Firebird, which was the new name for Phoenix. Phoenix got renamed after the BIOS manufacturers complained. They then did "months of trademark research" to come up with Firebird, which exists in the OSS world already as a database product! Firefox is being registered as a trademark worldwide, although it's also the name of a Clint Eastwood sci-fi movie from the early 1980s.

Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine and the XUL toolkit, as used by Mozilla. MozillaFirefox has recently become pretty popular and is currently slowly becoming the replacement for the Mozilla Browser component of !SeaMonkey?, the Mozilla application suite.

The latest release is 0.8, the first with the Firefox name.

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