Mozilla Firefox is a web browser built by the Mozilla Corporation and a large number of volunteers. Originally, Firefox was a fork or a distinct software piece of the Netscape Navigator element of the Mozilla Application Suite. The suite has now been substituted by Firefox as the most significant product of the Mozilla Project.
Mozilla Firefox is capable of working on multiple computer platforms and support diverse versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, PowerPC and Mac OS X. This multi platform software can run on all or more than one such platforms. On the other hand, other operating systems like Solaris, OS/2, SkyOS, FreeBSD and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition have been used as unofficial ports to the source code.
The Firefox code can be found as FOSS (free and open source software) included in the terms of Mozilla tri-license. Version 2.0.0.7 is the latest release of Firefox and was launched on September 18, 2007.
In August 2007, Firefox was used by 14.56% of the world’s Web Browsers, version 1.5 or higher being used by 14.05% of them. These statistics have been provided by the Market Share by Net Applications Report under Netapplications.com.
