Firefox

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Contents 1 Description 2 Latest Version 3 FAQs 4 Tips and Tricks 4.1 Speedup 4.2 Miscellaneous 5 See Also 6 External Links

Description

Firefox is a popular multi-platform web browser developed by the Mozilla Community and backed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox delivers a safe and easy web browsing, familiar user interface, enhanced security features including protection from online identity theft, and integrated search that lets you get the most out of the web.

Firefox is installed by default in openSUSE.

Firefox is completely customizable. A large variety of add-ons exists that lets you theme or add extra functionality to Firefox.

Latest Version

The Mozilla Project on the Build Service provides you the latest version of Firefox. This project offers relatively stable and tested, albeit unofficial, packages from Mozilla.

The repository can be found here: Mozilla Repository

You can use one of these One Click Install to install the latest version of Firefox:

Version: 11.1

Version: 11.0

Version: 10.3

Version: Factory

FAQs

• Firefox 3 FAQ
• How to report a crash

Tips and Tricks

Speedup

• Clean Firefox Database This works only from Firefox 3.0 on.
• Disable IPv6
• Enable HTTP Pipelining

Miscellaneous

• SDB:Mozilla_filechooser
• Set Thunderbird to open link in email using Firefox
• Firefox custom search

See Also

• Thunderbird
• SeaMonkey
• Mozilla

External Links

The Mozilla web site is home for Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, SeaMonkey and more.]

• Learn more about Firefox 2.0
• Learn more about Firefox 3.0
• Learn more about Firefox 3.5
• Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird Knowledge Base