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Mozilla Firefox (known simply as Firefox) is a free and open-source^[17] web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is available for Windows,OS X and Linux operating systems, with its mobile versions available forAndroid and Firefox OS. It uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.^[18]

Firefox was created in 2002, under the name "Phoenix" by the Mozilla community members who wanted a standalone browser rather than theMozilla Application Suite bundle. Even during its beta phase, Firefox proved to be popular by its testers and was praised for its speed, security and add-ons compared with Microsoft's then-dominant Internet Explorer 6. Firefox was released in November 2004,^[19] and was highly successful with 60 million downloads within nine months, which was the first time that Internet Explorer's dominance was challenged.^[20] Firefox is considered the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator,^[21] as the Mozilla Foundation was created by Netscape in 1998 before their acquisition by AOL.^[22]

As of July 2015, Firefox has between 12% and 19% of worldwide usageas a "desktop" browser, making it, per different sources, the third most popular web browser.^{[23][24][25][26]} Still, the browser is most popular in some countries, as a desktop browser,^[27][28] such as Indonesia andGermany at 48%,^[29] 43%^[30] of the market share, respectively. According to Mozilla, as of December 2014, there are half a billion Firefox users around the world.^[31]

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• 1 History
• 2 Features
  • 2.1 Standards
  • 2.2 Security
  • 2.3 Telemetry
  • 2.4 Localizations
  • 2.5 Platform availability
• 3 Release history
  • 3.1 Firefox for mobile
  • 3.2 Extended Support Release
• 4 System requirements
  • 4.1 OS support history
  • 4.2 CPU architectures
    • 4.2.1 x86 family
    • 4.2.2 Other CPU architectures
• 5 Licensing
• 6 Trademark and logo
  • 6.1 Branding and visual identity
• 7 Promotion
• 8 Performance
• 9 Market adoption
• 10 See also
• 11 References
• 12 Further reading
• 13 External links
   
  

  Developer(s)	Mozilla Foundation and contributors Mozilla Corporation
  Initial release	September 23, 2002; 12 years ago
  Stable release	40.0.2 (August 13, 2015; 14 days ago[1]) [±] ESR 38.2.0 (August 11, 2015; 16 days ago[2]) [±]
  Preview release	Beta 41.0 Beta 4 (August 25, 2015; 2 days ago[3][4]) [±] Developer Edition 42.0a2 (August 14, 2015; 13 days ago[5]) [±] daily release Nightly 43.0a1 (August 10, 2015; 17 days ago[6]) [±] daily release
  Development status	Active
  Written in	C++,[7] JavaScript,[8] C, CSS,[9]XUL, XBL
  Operating system	Windows, OS X, Linux,Android,[10] Firefox OS
  Engines	Gecko, SpiderMonkey
  Size	Windows: 39 MB[11][12] OS X: 73 MB[11] Linux: 45 MB[11] Android: 30 MB[13] Source code: 170–774 MB[11]
  Available in	79 languages[14]
  Type	Web browser Feed reader Mobile web browser
  License	MPL 2.0[15][16]
  Website	mozilla.org/firefox
  Standard(s)	HTML5, CSS3, RSS, Atom

                                             
  
  
  

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