Mozilla Firefox, informally known as Firefox in Chinese, is an open source web browser, which uses Gecko engine (ie non-IE kernel) and was developed by Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers. Originally known as "Phoenix", it was later renamed "Mozilla Firebird" and then changed to its current name.
Mozilla Firefox is a web browser developed by Mozilla. It adopts Gecko web page typesetting engine and supports various operating systems. The open source code is licensed by multiple licenses, including Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General License Terms (GPL) and GNU Loose Public License (LGPL). The goal is to create a At present, Firefox ranks third in the global browser market share, and Google browser officially surpassed Firefox in November 211, ranking second. Over the years, the general principle of Mozilla's Firefox development plan is to upgrade Firefox's functions every one or two years. On January 14th, 21, Mozilla said that in the future, it will adjust the above product release principles, that is, it will gradually add various new functions to Firefox by regularly releasing security upgrades, and such upgrades will be released every six weeks. On the morning of January 11th, 212, Mozilla was working on the development of the Extended Support Release (hereinafter referred to as "ESR") for Firefox. This version of the browser is relatively slow to update, updating once a year, not every six weeks like the normal version.
Its features include: 1. Colorful skin-changing and colorful styles support both desktop and mobile versions of Firefox, with changeable styles and easy installation. Hundreds of thousands of colorful styles are available. 2. Data Synchronization automatically synchronizes and backs up data on your desktop and mobile devices. Supports synchronizing bookmarks, history, tabs being opened, and saving user names and passwords. Maintain a consistent online experience between computers and mobile devices without interruption. 3. A brand-new homepage Firefox mobile-homepage
The brand-new mobile homepage provides speed dialing and navigation of common websites, which is convenient for you to better access the webpage with your mobile browser. 4, the new interface Firefox Mobile is so different. A truly multi-tag mobile browser makes full use of screen space. -Visual multi-label placed on the left side of the screen; -The browser function configuration is placed on the right side of the screen; -The address bar is automatically hidden at the top of the screen. 5. Personalized customization Firefox has 12, extensions, and the total number of downloads exceeds 2 billion. Firefox Mobile continues Firefox's super-powerful "add-on extension" system. At present, hundreds of extensions have been ported to the mobile version. Each extension is equivalent to a unique function, product, application or service. 6. Fast, simple and perfect webpage presentation. Automatically enlarge and clearly display the text content, making reading more convenient. Excellent touch experience. Support multi-touch and double-click zoom. The page scrolls up and down and automatically corrects the deviation. 7, less input Sync synchronization+smart address bar: When entering a URL, Firefox will automatically retrieve bookmarks, history and tags of mobile phones and PCs, and provide suggestions on URL selection. 8, strong performance and leading technology Firefox Mobile adopts Firefox 5 core engine, and its performance is improved in an all-round way. Support the latest network technologies, such as SVG, Canvas, ECMAScript 5, WebM, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
using skills
skip the waiting for installation
by default, Firefox has to wait for 3 seconds to install the extension. To cancel the waiting time, you can enter about:config in the address bar, and then enter security.dialog_enable_delay in the "filter" of the opened page, and you will see this item. Double-click it and change its value to .
Turn off compatibility check
The authors of some plug-ins of Firefox failed to update in time, which led to the new version of Firefox prompting incompatibility and unable to run these extensions. The so-called compatibility check of Firefox is only judged according to the install.rdf file in the plug-in. The install.rdf file only describes the Firefox version number supported by the plug-in. In fact, many extensions can run normally on the new version of Firefox. You can force the extension to run by the following methods:
Enter about:config in the address bar, and right-click in the blank space to select "New → Boolean". Enter
extensions.checkcompatibility.4. in the name of the pop-up window (here, take version 4..1 as an example, and change it to a decimal consisting of the first three characters of the version number based on the actual version number), select false as the value, and click OK. Now you can right-click the incompatible extension in the extension list and select Enable.
regarding the beta version, please note: for the beta version, you need to add the last letter b, such as 3.6beta2, which should be extensions.checkcompatibility.3.6b, but starting from Firefox 6. beta, you don't need to add the last letter, otherwise it will be invalid.
aurora version needs to add the last letter a, otherwise it will be invalid. For example, version 7.a1 should be extensions.checkcompatibility.7.anight, and it needs to be modified to extensions.checkcompatibility.night..