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8 unusual facts about FireFox


Digital Marketing in Brazil

Customers are offered a range of ways to use the service efficiently, either by browsing on PC or the well-optimised mobile site, using the free mobile app, or by downloading the Buscapé Time browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Font embedding

Currently, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome support automatic downloading of fonts used on a website using CSS2 or CSS3.

Hopatcong High School

Joe Hewitt, software programmer best known for his work on the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Microsoft Agent

However, web page agents are only compatible with Internet Explorer, since alternative browsers like Opera or Mozilla Firefox do not support ActiveX.

T-comma

The Windows version of the Firefox web browser is able to generate S-comma and T-comma, even if the characters are missing from the system's fonts.

The Real Housewives of Fat Tony

Ariel Ponywether of Firefox News Ponywether's review was mixed not positive, she was quite negative about the sub-plot.

TransforMiiX

TransforMiiX is an XSLT processor used in Gecko browsers, such as Firefox, to transform XML into HTML.

VI Technology

Authorized users can access test results from anywhere on the network using a Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.


ArchOne

In the three releases, we can find a common selection of software: Firefox, Google Chrome, Skype, KeepassX, Hsoconnect, Gparted, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, VLC, MPlayer (the complete list of packages is available in the home project at sourceforge.net).

Archy

Ubiquity, a Firefox extension based on the same principles as Archy created by Mozilla Labs with Aza Raskin in the design team.

Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.

Boeoes Kaelstigen

Besides Boeoes Kaelstigen's own releases, they've done several remixes for artists such as Familjen, Tove Styrke, Bosson, Duvchi, Jonathan Johansson, Firefox AK and Andreas Tilliander.

Browser wars

During December 2009 and January 2010, StatCounter reported that its statistics indicated that Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser, when counting individual browser versions, passing Internet Explorer 7 and 8 by a small margin.

Camino

In early 2002 Dave Hyatt, one of the co-creators of Firefox (then called Phoenix), joined the team and built Chimera, a small, lightweight browser wrapper, around their work.

Cross-site scripting

Another mitigation present in Internet Explorer (since version 6), Firefox (since version 2.0.0.5), Safari (since version 4), Opera (since version 9.5) and Google Chrome, is an HttpOnly flag which allows a web server to set a cookie that is unavailable to client-side scripts.

Do Not Track

In July 2009, researchers Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm created a prototype add-on for the Firefox web browser, implementing support for the Do Not Track header.

Form Faces

FormFaces is compatible with browsers that implement XHTML 1.0, ECMAScript-262 3rd Edition, and DOM Level 2 which includes Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Safari, and NetFront.

History of Firefox

One minor update to Firefox 3.6, version 3.6.4 (code-named Lorentz) is the first minor update to make non-intrusive changes other than minor stability and security fixes.

History of Mozilla Thunderbird

On July 26, 2007, the Mozilla Foundation announced that Thunderbird would be developed by an independent organization, because the Mozilla Corporation (the for profit portion of Mozilla) is focusing on Mozilla Firefox development.

Inside the Net

The first episode was released on November 29, 2005 and featured Mike Shaver and Mike Beltzner discussing the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5.

Mammon in popular culture

Mozilla Firefox – In The Book of Mozilla easter egg found on the Mozilla Firefox browser, the term Mammon is used to refer metaphorically to Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway

UAG performs particularly well in providing a portal for web applications, such as web-based email and intranets, but it also provides full SSL VPN network access using either ActiveX (when using Internet Explorer) or Java components (when using Firefox, Opera, non Windows client such as Red Hat or Mac OS).

MojoPac

MojoPac supports popular applications such as Firefox and Microsoft Office, and it is also high performance enough to run popular PC Games such as World of Warcraft, Minecraft and Half-Life 2.

Signority

Signority is completely web-based and supports multiple mainstream browsers including FireFox, Chrome and IE8+.

Tapulous

Its co-founders were Bart Decrem, an entrepreneur who helped launch the Firefox browser and was the founding CEO of Flock, Inc. and Andrew Lacy, a consultant of McKinsey & Company.

The Book of Mozilla

The "beast reborn" refers to Firefox, which gained supporters who self-organized through Spread Firefox, and undertook publicity for the browser, taking out an advertisement in The New York Times and making a crop circle shaped like the Firefox logo.

The Secret Guide to Computers

It includes updated and "new info on modern computer dealers, Windows 7, modern Web browsers (Internet Explorer 8&9, Firefox 4&5, and Chrome 12), best Websites, modern e-mail systems (Live Mail, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail), the iPad, Microsoft Office 2010, modern programming (in Java 6, QB64, Visual Basic 2010, Visual C++ 2010, and Visual C# 2010), axiomatic math, Spanish pronunciation, Bible translations, and fun stuff."

Valmet M76

The Valmet M76, M72 and M78 have been used as props to simulate the AK-47 and related Soviet weapons in a number of US films during the Cold War, most notably Red Dawn, Commando and Firefox, most likely due to their availability.

Warmux

The teams are styled after the mascots of various free software projects, such as GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, KDE, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Suse, Workrave, NuFW, SPIP, and Bugzilla.

Wikipedia App

The Wikimedia Foundation publishes official Wikipedia Apps for using Wikipedia on multiple mobile device operating systems, currently: Android (via Google Play), BlackBerry (via BlackBerry World), iOS (via App Store), Firefox OS (via Firefox Marketplace),and Windows 8 (via Windows Store).

Xmarks Sync

Xmarks does provide an option for the user to avoid the Xmarks server, by using their own WebDAV or FTP server to store their bookmarks, but this option is only available with Firefox.


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