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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source (Free and open source software) web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications statistic puts Firefox at 24.59% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of201004lc=on, making it the second most used browser worldwide after Microsofts Internet Explorer. Other sources put Firefoxs usage share between 20% and 32%.
To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko (Gecko (layout engine)) layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
Latest Firefox featurescite web url=Firefox?s Feature-Pack include tabbed browsing (Tab (GUI)), spell checking (Spell checker), incremental find, live bookmarking (Features of Mozilla Firefox), a download manager, private browsing (Privacy mode), location-aware browsing (also known as "geolocation") based exclusively on a Google service and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through add-ons (List of Firefox extensions), created by third-party developers (Video game development parties#Third-party developer), of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefoxs users.
Firefox runs on various versions of GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.6.3, released on as of20100401alt=April 1, 2010. Firefoxs source code is free software, released under a tri-license (Multi-licensing) GNU GPL (GNU General Public License)/GNU LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)/MPL (Mozilla Public License).cite web url= title=Mozilla Code Licensing accessdate=2007-09-17 author=Mozilla Foundation
Logo: Mozilla Firefox Icon (File:Firefox 3.5 logo.png)Mozilla Firefox wordmark (File:Mozilla Firefox wordmark.svg)
Screenshot: File:Firefox 3.6 Screenshot.png
Author: Mozilla Corporation
Developer: Mozilla Corporation,Mozilla Foundation
Released: initial-releaseNovember 9, 2004
Programming Language: C++, JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), XUL, XBL
Operating System: Windows (Microsoft Windows),Mac OS X,Linux,BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution),Solaris (Solaris (operating system)),OpenSolaris,GNU
Engine: Gecko (Gecko (layout engine))
Language: 75 languages
Genre: Web browser,FTP client (File Transfer Protocol),Gopher client (Gopher (protocol))
License: MPL (Mozilla Public License)/GNU GPL (GNU General Public License)/GNU LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)/Additional Notices
Website: www.firefox.com/