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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 12, 2005
- Total Downloads: 18,089,134
- Downloads last week: 81,046
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11706 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The final release of Mozilla Firefox offers enough features to make you rethink Internet Explorer. You can easily create toolbars by dragging and dropping icons. Live Bookmarks turn RSS feeds into something that acts like a bookmarks folder. You can type Google search queries right into the address bar or use the built-in search box. The program displays the page source in a new window, using indents and color-coded tags like an HTML editor. You can view your bookmarks or history in the Sidebar area, which lets you quickly revisit your favorite sites. Though the browser hides its advanced settings, you can still build modules using XML, CSS, JavaScript, and even C . The program includes such tools as a JavaScript debugger and a DOM viewer.
At 55MB for 25 windows, the browser uses fewer resources than Internet Explorer but more than Opera. The built-in pop-up blocker works better than Opera's, IE's, and those of most paid standalone utilities. However, the download manager is still underdeveloped. Though the final release version vastly improves stability, we noticed occasional reluctance to maximize in response to Alt Tab commands. People who want more security than IE provides should look at Mozilla Firefox.
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Publisher's description
From Mozilla :Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11706 votes
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11 out of 21 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
Pros: Very customizable, has a lot of extensions and themes available for free download, a whole lot more secure than IE or any IE-based browser, a good pop-up blocker, and for free! Plug-ins are available for free too. Almost all pages support it, but not all as unforunately; browser discrimination STILL exists. It's very stable in this build too. So far it hasn't crashed on me. It's also very fast, but I still find Opera faster; even if I download lots of apps that claim that it can speed up Firefox. But this browser is excellent! Get it now!
Cons: Its download manager is not as advanced as Opera's download manager, but there are extensions to make it as good; if not better, than Opera's download manager; like iGet, Download Manager Tweak, and lots more.
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15 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
"Customizable, Safe, Many Features, Fast"
Pros: - Customizable. You can pick and download over 1,000 extensions, themes, and plugins. For example, adblock and mouse gestures. Extensions and themes can be downloaded at update.mozilla.org
- Safe. This is obvious from the patches that Mozilla Firefox has made. No browser is perfectly safe. This is also true with firefox. However, firefox fixes these problems instantly.
- Features from default in firefox include tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker, and RSS reader to name a few.
- Mozilla Firefox is run on the Gecko engine making Firefox faster and more secure than IE and browsers running on the IE engine.
Cons: - Back and Forward is a bit slow, but still faster than Internet Explorer. However, this is fixed in v1.1
Note! The original firefox browser is made intentionally to have only basic features! One IS SUPPOSED TO download extensions and themes to customize the browser to your preference.
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2 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
Pros: Prevents Virusis, block popups and many others.
Cons: None
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
Pros: this is a great browser with a set of genius developers...we should be paying them!
Cons: i dont know maybe its just my pc. says one time unable to find site and tried 3 times and i got disconnected (very slow connection) then i tried agin and then went through. maybe its just at the beginning. ive just installed it.
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7 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
Pros: it is good for sefity has good pop-up blocker
but if you want confartable use use Avant Browser it is also free and i love it.
Cons: slow loading up
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