Mozilla Firefox

Firefox 3.5 displaying Wikipedia on Linux.
Original author(s)	Mozilla Corporation
Developer(s)	Mozilla Corporation Mozilla Foundation
Initial release	November 9, 2004 (2004-11-09)
Stable release	3.5.5 (2009-11-05; 5 days ago) [+/−]
Preview release	3.6b1 (2009-10-30; 11 days ago) [+/−]
Written in	C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript,[2] CSS[3][4]
Operating system	Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Solaris OpenSolaris
Engine	Gecko
Size	9.4 MB (Linux) 17.2 MB (Mac OS X) 7.7 MB (Windows) (all archived)
Available in	75 languages
Development status	Active
Type	Web browser FTP client Gopher client
License	MPL/GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/about:rights
Website	www.mozilla.com/firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite andmanaged by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 24.07% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of October 2009^[update], making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer.^[5]

To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko 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 features include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing (aka "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, created by third-party developers, of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users.

Firefox runs on various versions of Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.5.5, released on November 5, 2009^[update]. Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/MPL.