The web browser that rose from the source code of a dying web browser named Netscape and made it big. An award winning browser, Firefox gained pop¬ularity in the era of feature constrained and security flawed IE 6. Firefox offered tabbed browsing and restricted pop ups and ActiveX. Available for Windows and Mac, Firefox has been the default and de-facto browser in most Linux distributions. Firefox has surely made an impact on the number of choices peo¬ple had to browse the Web.

Today, most web sites or web portals mandate to become Firefox compatible besides IE. After all Fire¬fox shares more than 30% usage in the web browser arena. Recently (on 21st Feb 2008) Firefox reached the mark of 500 million downloads.

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