Aetna – Firefox turned 18 years old

This browser, which is generally called Firefox, was the most popular browser used by users before the appearance of Google Chrome. Firefox was first released on November 9, 2004 by the Mozilla Foundation and made available to computer users.

This free and open-source web browser is derived from the Mozilla Internet software suite, which is developed and supported by the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages that implement web standards.

Firefox is officially available for Windows 7 or later, MacOS and Linux, as well as for Android and iOS. Firefox is being updated regularly and with each update, its developers try to fix the reported problems.

At first, this browser was more popular among Linux users, but gradually with the emergence of security problems in Internet Explorer as the most used web browser, users of other operating systems such as Windows and Macintosh also started using this web browser to the point where it is not installed by default. On Windows or Mac, it was the world’s most used web browser for several years.

Firefox owes its popularity to its high level of customization and add-ons. The name of this web browser, unlike the word “Fox” which means fox and its logo, which looks like a red fox, is actually a red panda, according to Mozilla officials. Also, in the beginning, the logo of this browser looked like a phoenix. While some users have problems with this browser.

For example, some users are asking for more popular add-ons to be added to Firefox, which the developers of Firefox consider to be contrary to their goal of being a lightweight web browser. Of course, most of these extensions and many other features can be directly downloaded and installed on Firefox.

One of the other problems attributed to Firefox is the problems caused by the Adobe Flash plugin that is provided for Linux, although this problem has nothing to do with Firefox itself. For the information of more specialized users, this browser is written using programs such as C++, JavaScript, Rast, C and HTML.

This browser still has its charms and some users use it.

Taking a screenshot of the web page and sharing it in the version (Quantum 57.0) and above, 2 times faster than the previous versions, 30% less RAM consumption than the Google Chrome browser, the ability to drag and drop text into the search box, the feature of browsing the web anonymously And destroying all browser data after closing the browser window is a part of Firefox features.

Source: Hamshahri Online