Firefox is not an unknown word to anybody. It is the famous browser which has challenged the dominance of internet explorer within 5 years of its launch. It now enjoys a considerable 17.76 % of web browser usage and is second only to IE which enjoys about 76 % of web browser usage.

Its best feature, because of which people took it hand in hand, was tabbed browsing as people had to no longer start a new window every time they wanted to browse through another website. It also has features like spell checker, live bookmarking and more than 2000 add-ons like No Script, Adblock Plus etc responsible for different functions. It runs on all the latest operating systems and is absolutely free to download and use.

Its latest version is beta 3.05 which is still under revision as it is not very compatible with different add-ons.The story behind the naming of Firefox is also very interesting. It was originally named as Phoenix (phoenix technologies raised trademark issue), then Firebird (this time they had issues with firebird database software project), then it was named Mozilla firebird but the FDSP again revolted and so it was finally named as Mozilla Firefox. Tune in for more on this topic in our next post.