Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (Glendale)

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• Price: Free
• Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
• Date added: June 17, 2003
• Total Downloads: 18,089,134
• Downloads last week: 81,046
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CNET editors' review

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Even though Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, you might wonder why if you spend some time with Mozilla Firefox. This light and nimble Web wonder brought tabbed browsing into the mainstream (IE7 recently jumped on the bandwagon) and offers countless ways to customize it through extensions and themes. Drag-and-drop tabs with individual close buttons help keep your content organized the way you like, and you can further streamline your browsing through the use of extensive hot keys. You'll find all of the regular options and features required for surfing the Web in the default setup, but the groundbreaking features come with the thousands of third-party extensions. Likewise, if you don't like the look of the default interface, there are hundreds of slick themes to use, though many weren't updated for version 2 at its release.

Firefox is the perfect browser for those involved with Web design and coding. A JavaScript debugger comes standard, and Firefox displays the page-source code in a new window, using indents and color-coded tags similar to an HTML editor. The built-in pop-up blocker works great for most sites, and new antiphishing protections and enhanced security for extensions are in the version 2 release. Anyone looking for a full-featured browser with seemingly endless ways to customize should download this powerhouse.

Publisher's description

Mozilla Firebird (formerly known as the Phoenix browser), which uses a large amount of the Mozilla code, is a lean and fast browser that is written using Extensible User Interface Language (XUL). It works on Linux and Microsoft's Windows operating systems and is designed to be cross-platform. Additional features include a new design, a redesigned preferences window, new icons for the Bookmark Manager toolbar, improved Privacy Options, smooth scrolling, and various bug fixes and improvements.

Note: You should create a new profile for Mozilla Firebird 0.6. To create a new profile, start Mozilla Firebird by running MozillaFirebird.exe -p and click the Create Profile button. If you don't want to delete your old profile and are willing to incur the risk of new bugs, you should at least delete your profile's downloads.rdf file. You must also delete your old Mozilla Firebird directory rather than just overwriting the files there. Not doing so will result in problems and you should not file any bugs on Mozilla Firebird unless you've first done a clean install and tested on a new profile. As Mozilla Firebird stabilizes more this will not be necessary, but until then, these steps are absolutely necessary.

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