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Choose from thousands of add-ons that improve Firefox. It is easy to customize Firefox 2 to make your own.

An Add-on for Everyone

You can choose from over 1000 add-ons to addons.mozilla.com. A Firefox add-on can help you comparison shop, share bookmarks with friends, see the weather in a corner of your browser, write to your blog, access to information, listen to music - all in the inside the browser that you love. You can even change the look of your browser - from buttons colors and fonts - so it fits your personal style.

Add-ons Manager Extensions and Themes

The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, which makes it even easier for you to customize Firefox 2. Install, remove, enable and disable your add-ons to a single location.

Search Manager

You can now quickly add, remove and re-order your search engines in the search bar. Firefox 2 will also detect if a website has a search engine that can be installed, and will install them for you with a simple click on the menu.

The Web is an ideal place, but sometimes you meet badly people. Firefox keeps you safe from spyware, scam artists and spammers, using the power of a vigilant and passionate community to protect you 24 / 7.

Phishing Protection

Phishing takes the protection of security of Firefox to a new level, thereby helping to preserve the confidentiality of your financial information and protect yourself against identity theft. When you encounter a Web site that is a suspected forgery (known as “phishing” site) Firefox will warn you and offer you to take a search page so you can find the real Web site you are looking for.

Open Source, Safer

At the heart of Firefox is an open source development process led by thousands of enthusiasts, the experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure that our products are more secure and updated quickly, while allowing us to benefit from best third scanning and security assessment tools to further strengthen global security.

Automatic Update

Firefox update system always checks to see if you use the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (typically 200KB - 700kb), giving you only what you need and make the security update quick to download and install. The system of automatic updating updates for Firefox for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 40 different languages.

Protection Against Spyware

Firefox will not allow a Web site to download, install or run programs on your computer without your explicit agreement. Period. You will be notified whenever downloading or installing software, Firefox and always tell you what’s happening so you can stay in control of your computer.

Clear Private Data

Firefox offers the possibility to erase all your data navigation on the Web with a simple click “Clear Private Data” tool. You can be confident that when you clear your private data in Firefox, it’s gone - if you use your own computer or the library.

There is much to do on the Web, and Firefox 2 is full of useful features to make your time online more productive.

Improved tabbed browsing

We love tabs as much as you, if Firefox 2 open new Web pages in tabs by default. Each of these tabs has its own close button, but do not worry - if you accidentally close a tab, just go to the History menu to reduce the list of “recently closed tabs.” You’ll never be crunched for more space whatsoever. When you have too many tabs open to adapt comfortably in a single window, scroll arrows appear on each side and a button on the right side will always show you an easy to read a list of all your open tabs.

Restore session

To lose your place while you’re doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with session restore, if Firefox restart or closes when you look back exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs that you use the text entered into forms, and in furthering the downloads you will all be restored functioning. You can even configure Firefox 2 to always restore your previous session instead of loading a page, so you can never lose your place.

Spellcheck

Sometimes you’re in a rush, and can not remember if it is “i” before “e” or vice versa. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to prevent you from making mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based e-mail, so you can worry about more important things.

Suggestions research

Some search engines in Firefox 2 can read your thoughts and, in fact, suggest search terms for what you are looking for. Just start typing in the search bar and a drop-down list of suggestions appears. (Works for Google, Yahoo! And Answers.com.)

Web Feeds (RSS)

What is news, podcasts, indie rock, and pictures of kittens have in common? They are all things that you can subscribe to Web feed. Firefox 2 gives you full control over the Web feed, showing you a preview and let you choose how you want to subscribe. You can use a Firefox Live Bookmark, or a feed reader that you have installed on your computer, or through a Web service, such as My Yahoo, Google Reader or Bloglines.

Live Titles

Keep an eye on this auction or the status of a delivery using the new feature in Live Titles Firefox 2. Compact enough to fit as a favorite label, Live titles are regularly updated summary of key information on a Web page. As the information on the page is updated, so your title. Try one in Firefox 2 bookmarking by www.woot.com.

Integrated Search

Firefox lets you find anything that you’re looking. The search bar is pre-loaded with search engines for Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search term in the search bar and receive an immediate response search engine that you have chosen. You can select a new search engine on the search bar menu at any time, and add search engines of hundreds of your favorite websites.

Live Bookmarks

Firefox Live Bookmarks let you view a Web feed such as news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or menu. At a glance, quickly review the latest titles from your favorite sites and click to go directly to articles that interest you.

Pop-up Blocker

Firefox allows you to keep control of Web pages you’re viewing, blocking pop-ups. Firefox’s pop-up blocker notifies you when pop-ups are blocked by the information bar or icon in the lower right corner.

Interface simplified

The user interface Firefox 2 has been updated to improve usability without altering the knowledge of the surfing experience.

Accessibility

Firefox offers a better browsing experience for everyone - including those who are visually impaired. Firefox includes support for DHTML accessibility. Developers can create Web pages that reduce the amount of tabs to navigate a document to minimize keystrokes for people with mobility disabilities. Firefox also includes support for Microsoft Active Accessibility, Microsoft’s accessibility API standard for Windows. This support allows Firefox to work with screen readers such as GW Micro Window-Eyes and Freedom Scientific’s JAWS.

Windows Operating Systems:

Minimum System Requirements:

• 233 Mhz processor
• 64 MB of RAM
• 50 MB of free disk space
• Microsoft Windows 98

Mozilla Recommends:

• 500 Mhz processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 100 MB of free disk space
• Microsoft Windows XP

Mac Operating Systems:

Minimum System Requirements:

• PowerPC G3 processor
• 128 MB of RAM
• 75 MB of free disk space
• Mac OS X 10.2.x

Mozilla Recommends:

• PowerPC G4 or Intel processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 150 MB of free disk space

Linux Operating Systems:

Minimum System Requirements:

• 233 Mhz processor
• 64 MB of RAM
• 50 MB of free disk space
• Linux kernel 2.2.14 (with glibc 2.3.2, XFree86-3.3.6, gtk+2.0, fontconfig/xft and libstdc++5)

Mozilla Recommends:

• 500 Mhz processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 100 MB of free disk space
• a modern Linux distribution