1. How
Firefox
Works

2. Firefox
History
• 2003
-­‐
became
the
Mozilla
Founda?on
• 2004
-­‐
the
official
release
on
Nov.
9
Firefox
is
an
alterna?ve
browser
• 2009
-­‐
Firefox's
market
to
Opera,
Safari,
Internet
Explorer
share
at
nearly
20
and
other
Web
browsers.
percent

3. Firefox
Basics
• official
site:
hOp://
www.geRirefox.com
• Awesome
Bar
Screenshot
by
How
Stuff
Works.com
• fully
customizable
• security

4. Firefox
Features
• Tabbed
Browsing
• Built-­‐in
Pop-­‐up
Blocker
• Cross-­‐PlaRorm
Applica?on
• Firefox
Extensions
• Open
Source
Firefox
features
"tabbed
browsing."

5. Firefox
Extensions
• Themes
Foxy
Tunes
• Gestures
• Foxy
Tunes
• Forecast
Fox
• Radial
Context
Radical
Context
• Adblock
Plus

6. Firefox
Security
• Security
Zones
• Digital
Signatures
• Ac?veX
• Favicon
• Open
Source

7. Firefox
3.5:
What's
New?
• Gecko
1.9.1
rendering
engine
• memory
leak
• processing
speed
• the
XPCOM
cycle
collector
tool

8. Firefox
Problems
and
Concerns
• popularity
• hackers
focusing
• based
on
open
source
code
• its
ability
to
block
adver?sements
• less
likely
to
click
on
Web
ads

9. What's
next
for
Firefox
• Another
new
version
of
the
popular
browser
• APNG
• Mul?
touch
refers
to
computer
interfaces
• API
• Firefox
4.0