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Introduction to Mozilla Firefox

Introduction to Mozilla Firefox. 2005.04, mariah@hanmail.net. Objective: to introduce Firefox and make people try it! The history of Web Browser Mozilla and Firefox Firefox: Advantages Firefox: Disadvantages And next is. Agenda. NCSA Mosaic (1992) by Marc Andreessen Netscape (1994)

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Introduction to Mozilla Firefox

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  1. Introduction to Mozilla Firefox 2005.04, mariah@hanmail.net

  2. Objective: to introduce Firefox and make people try it! The history of Web Browser Mozilla and Firefox Firefox: Advantages Firefox: Disadvantages And next is.. Agenda

  3. NCSA Mosaic (1992) by Marc Andreessen Netscape (1994) Microsoft Internet Explorer(IE) 3.0 (1996) & 4.0 Freely bundled with Windows Active Desktop IE won and Mozilla project started. (1998) What’s happened between Netscape 4.x and 5.0 version? Mozilla 1.0 released (2002) But the market situation wasn’t changed. After the browser war, we have: Non-standard and non-universal Web IE monopoly The history of Web Browser

  4. Mozilla 1.0 was heavy and bug-prone. Phoenix project To make small and lightweight “browser” based on Mozilla Mozilla project roadmap revised (2003) Product: Firebird and Thunderbird Mozilla: rendering engine(Gecko) and development platform Firefox 1.0 released (2004.11) 45,000,000 download hits IE’s market share goes down 90%. Does Microsoft take card of IE? Mozilla and Firefox

  5. Standard, Extensibility and Possibility Adherence to W3C standard “Take back the web” Universal accessible, semantic and trustable web Various OS platforms Open community: core developers, extension and theme developers, testers/bug reporters, localizer and users Firefox: Advantages

  6. Security No pop-up and spyware No ActiveX and VBScript technology Plugins: Flash, Java, WMP, … Developer’s community for security Prevention and quick follow-up measures Increasing users and exposure to various environment Password Manager Auto-completion by Master Password Image blocking Firefox: Advantages

  7. Tab browsing More convenience and less resources cf.)) IE’s new window - Forcefully to be switched to new window - Complex and tedious flow of user behavior Search Bar Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Dictionary.com Easy to add and write other search plugins (Mycroft project) Location Bar Keyword and Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” “Add a Keyword for this Search” Firefox: Advantages

  8. Bookmark Memo & search functionality Keyword: shortcut to the page One HTML page Live Bookmark: RSS feed viewer Extensions & Themes Various and numerous Extensions All-In-One Gestures Sage IE View, FoxyTunes, … Various Themes Etc: Download Manager, find, text size, about:config, … Firefox: Advantages

  9. IE-only pages such as Internet Banking Subtle appearance & behavior difference in some site cf.)) Web Standardization Project, IE View Performance degrade by many extensions Development Environment IE: Web Browser control, DHTML DOM object, Browser Helper object Firefox: Disadvantages

  10. Internet Explorer 7.0 Security, Anti-spyware News Aggregator Netscape 8.0 Based on Firefox 1.0 Supports IE rendering engine Opera 8.0 Voice recognition Google’s gbrowser (0.X)? And next is..

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