Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser. This browser managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is the second most widely used browser. In German and Poland, Firefox is the most popular browser with 60% usage and 47%.
Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to display the web pages, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards. Firefox runs on various o.s.(operating system) including Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Android, and many other platform.
The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. Blake Ross started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a contractor at the Mozilla Foundation. While interning at Netscape, Ross became disenchanted with the browser he was working on and the direction given to it by America Online, which had recently purchased Netscape. Ross and Hyatt envisioned a smaller, easy-to-use browser that could have mass appeal, and Firefox was born from that idea. This open source project gained momentum and popularity.
The project which became Firefox, in September 2002, the binaries for public testing appeared under the name Phoenix. This name was kept until April 2003. It was changed because of a trademark dispute with the BIOS manufacturer, Firebird, as the new name, caused mixed reactions, particularly as the Firebird database server already carried the name. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird. On February 9, 2004 the project was renamed Mozilla Firefox (or Firefox for short)
Early Firefox releases featured a preferences panel that described cookies thus: "Cookies are delicious delicacies".
The phrase was representative of the programmers' quirky sense of humor and was a reflection of the free software movement's unconventional approach. The phrase became something of a cult legend and was even featured in an O'Reilly computer book. The original text was inserted by Blake Ross, one of the lead developers of Firefox. He said "describing something so complicated in such a small space was quite frankly the last thing I wanted to worry about after rewriting the cookie manager". However, in reflection of the growing acceptance and use of the Firefox browser in the Internet mainstream, the text was later changed. It was labelled a bug and was "fixed" by Mike Connor to read "Cookies are pieces of information stored by web pages on your computer. They are used to remember login information and other data". The revision was regarded as more likely to be helpful to less technically oriented computer users who were now using Firefox. Representing Mozilla's desire to appeal to mainstream users.
