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Firefox - Lightweight browser

Firefox is a light weight browser that uses the mozilla rendering engine 'gecko'. Its features include tabbed browsing, the ability to block only certain pop-up windows, customizable toolbars, enhanced searching, and specialized sidebars. It was formerly known as 'firebird.'

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Source tarball	http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9/firefox-source-0.9.tar.bz2
Source information	http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9/

Version 0.9 (beta) released on 2004-06-16

Licensed under MPL1.1.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User FAQ available in HTML format from http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html

Support contacts

Announce List	<mozilla-announce@mozilla.org>
Announce News	netscape.public.mozilla.announce
Help List	http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
Help News	netscape.mozilla.user.unix
Developer List	http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html#chat
Developer News	http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html#chat
Bug Database	http://texturizer.net/firefox/bugs.html

Project contacts

Maintainers

David Tenser

Related information

Interfaces	web
Source languages	C++
Use requirements	Linux kernel 2.2.14 or later, glibc 2.2.4 or later, gtk+ 1.2.0 (1.2.5 or greater preferred), XFree86 3.3.6 or later
Related programs	Dillo, Galeon

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-04-01
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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