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From Open Source project to the fastest growing browser in history

Firefox is a blockbuster success out of the ordinary. With millions of downloads, it's the hottest consumer Open Source user program in Internet history. There are a lot of great things to discover about Firefox, and its popularity is increasing as we speak. Here are the main reasons why you should download Firefox 3 and see if it lives up to your expectations. Its easy to install, completely safe and its free.

  1. More secure than IE
  2. Jammy extendibility
  3. The Netscape heritage
  4. Open Source
  5. Tabbed browsing

The story of Firefox web browser

Firefox comes from a very old family of browsers, its first ancestor is Mosaic which later developed into Netscape. For many years Netscape was the only real web browser and for a long period of time thought of as being synonymous with Internet it self. From the days of Mosaic over Netscape and Mozilla until today and Firefox 3, the geeks have followed the development closely, boosting the popularity of the foxy lady.

The Open Source software, Firefox is a real treat for techies because of its extendibility and customizable properties. This software has no limits when it comes to extensions and the possibility to make your browser look and feel the way you want it to.

Today the fastest growing browser in history ranks second in popularity to Internet Explorer. The popularity of Firefox is to a large extent due to all the extensions that make it so all-round. The fact that it is an Open Source user program doesn't make it worse.

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Firebug
written by Lovak, July 20, 2008
Here comes a great tool for ppl webdeveloping smilies/cheesy.gif

http://getfirebug.com/releases/

With this tool you can edit css, html and a lot more live on the site and see the result. (Also great for tracking errors)

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Firefox New Tab = Search + Awesomebar + You
written by chirax, September 09, 2008
Right now, when you open a new tab, you get a blank screen. While clean, it has a 100% probability of not getting you where what you want to be. While it’s good to not intimidate with an explosion of information, we can get a much more streamlined workflow—thereby saving huge amounts of aggregate time—by showing something. The question is, “What?”.
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Top 10 Reasons to Use Firefox 3
written by chirax, September 09, 2008
The new version of the Firefox Web browser was downloaded more than 8 million times in the first 24 hours it was available, the software’s developers said Wednesday. Here are the reasons Why you should have it.
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Mozilla Firefox Benchmarks - Better Than Chrome
written by chirax, September 09, 2008
The firefox has released the benchmarks against the V8 showing Firefox 3.1 will be faster than anything Google can muster with Chrome.
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