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Firefox

Firefox browser, Chinese name "Firefox", is a free, open source web browser from the Mozilla.

Firefox released in 2004, it is one of today's most popular browsers.

Firefox can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

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Firefox Statistics

The following table is a browser statistics in detail about Firefox usage:

2014 总计         FF 30 FF 29 FF 28 FF 27 FF 26 FF 25 更旧
5 月 24.9%         0.1% 14.2% 5.2% 0.5% 0.5% 0.2% 4.2%
4 月 25.0%           1.1% 18.1% 1.2% 0.7% 0.3% 3.6%
3 月 25.6%           0.3% 3.4% 16.3% 1.0% 0.4% 4.2%
2 月 26.4%             0.6% 11.7% 8.7% 0.6% 4.8%
1 月 26.9%               1.2% 18.9% 1.0% 5.8%
                         
2013 总计 FF 26 FF 25 FF 24 FF 23 FF 22 FF 21 FF 20 FF 19 FF 18 FF 17 更旧
12 月 26.8% 6.9% 13.3% 1.1% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.2% 0.2% 0.5% 3.0%
11 月 26.8% 1.0% 16.2% 3.5% 0.7% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.7% 2.9%
10 月 27.2% 0.1% 1.3% 18.4% 2.0% 0.7% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.4% 0.7% 2.5%
9 月 27.8% 0.1% 0.3% 3.1% 17.5% 1.0% 0.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.4% 0.9% 3.2%
8 月 28.2%     0.7% 10.8% 9.9% 1.0% 0.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.8% 3.5%
7 月 28.9%     0.1% 1.2% 18.0% 3.1% 1.0% 0.5% 0.5% 0.8% 3.7%
6 月 28.9%       0.1% 1.7% 19.8% 1.3% 0.7% 0.5% 0.8% 4.0%
5 月 27.7%       0.1% 0.5% 6.5% 14.0% 0.9% 0.6% 0.8% 4.3%
4 月 27.9%         0.1% 0.7% 12.9% 7.3% 0.8% 0.8% 5.9%
3 月 28.5%           0.1% 0.9% 19.0% 1.4% 0.9% 6.2%
2 月 29.6%           0.1% 0.2% 4.6% 16.0% 1.2% 7.5%
1 月 30.2%             0.1% 0.6% 12.4% 8.3% 8.8%
                         
2012 总计 FF 17 FF 16 FF 15 FF 14 FF 13 FF 12 FF 11 FF 9-10 FF 4-8 FF 3.6 更旧
12 月 31.1% 16.3% 5.6% 1.3% 1.0% 0.7% 1.1% 0.6% 1.2% 1.2% 0.8% 1.3%
11 月 31.2% 2.5% 19.4% 1.8% 1.2% 0.8% 1.2% 0.6% 1.3% 1.3% 0.8% 0.3%
10 月 31.8% 0.4% 9.5% 12.4% 1.8% 1.0% 1.4% 0.8% 1.4% 1.6% 1.0% 0.5%
9 月 32.2%   0.8% 17.7% 4.8% 1.3% 1.6% 1.0% 1.6% 1.9% 1.2% 0.3%
8 月 32.8%     1.9% 20.3% 2.1% 1.8% 1.1% 1.7% 2.1% 1.2% 0.7%
7 月 33.7%     0.3% 7.4% 15.2% 3.0% 1.3% 2.1% 2.4% 1.5% 0.5%
6 月 34.4%       0.6% 12.1% 12.5% 1.6% 2.3% 2.7% 1.8% 0.8%
5 月 35.2%       0.1% 0.8% 21.4% 3.8% 2.7% 3.4% 2.3% 0.7%
4 月 35.8%         0.1% 2.6% 21.6% 3.8% 3.8% 3.1% 0.8%
3 月 36.3%           0.3% 9.1% 17.3% 5.0% 3.7% 0.9%
2 月 37.1%           0.1% 0.6% 24.2% 6.5% 4.3% 1.4%
1 月 37.2%             0.1% 18.6% 12.4% 5.0% 1.1%
                         
2011 总计   FF 9 FF 8 FF 7 FF 6 FF 5 FF 4 FF 3.6 FF 3.5 FF 3.0 更旧
12 月 37.7%   1.8% 22.8% 2.1% 1.5% 1.2% 1.3% 5.6% 0.6% 0.5% 0.3%
11 月 38.1%   0.4% 12.7% 11.5% 2.2% 1.5% 1.5% 6.9% 0.6% 0.5% 0.3%
10 月 38.7%     0.6% 19.8% 5.1% 2.0% 1.8% 7.9% 0.7% 0.5% 0.3%
9 月 39.7%       1.5% 22.2% 3.1% 2.2% 9.0% 0.7% 0.7% 0.3%
8 月 40.6%         9.5% 15.9% 2.9% 10.3% 0.8% 0.8% 0.4%
7 月 42.0%         0.6% 23.2% 4.6% 11.5% 0.9% 0.9% 0.3%
6 月 42.2%           5.6% 21.5% 12.3% 1.5% 0.9% 0.4%
5 月 42.4%           0.3% 23.4% 15.6% 1.8% 1.0% 0.3%
4 月 42.9%             15.7% 23.8% 2.1% 1.1% 0.2%
3 月 42.2%             5.2% 32.9% 2.5% 1.3% 0.3%
2 月 42.4%             1.9% 35.8% 2.9% 1.5% 0.3%
1 月 42.8%             1.5% 36.1% 3.1% 1.7% 0.4%
                         
2010 总计             FF 4 FF 3.6 FF 3.5 FF 3.0 更旧
12 月 43.5%             1.1% 36.5% 3.5% 2.0% 0.4%
11 月 44.0%             0.8% 36.9% 3.8% 2.0% 0.5%
10 月 44.4%             0.7% 36.2% 4.5% 2.4% 0.6%
9 月 45.1%             0.8% 35.3% 5.6% 2.9% 0.5%
8 月 45.8%             0.6% 35.2% 6.1% 3.1% 0.6%
7 月 46.4%             0.4% 34.5% 7.3% 3.6% 0.6%
6 月 46.6%               32.7% 9.1% 4.0% 0.8%
5 月 46.9%               31.7% 10.0% 4.4% 0.8%
4 月 46.4%               29.4% 11.5% 4.6% 0.9%
3 月 46.2%               22.1% 17.6% 5.6% 0.9%
2 月 46.5%               10.5% 28.5% 6.5% 1.0%
1 月 46.3%               2.2% 34.2% 8.6% 1.3%
                         
2009 总计               FF 3.5 FF 3.0 FF 2.0 更旧
12 月 46.4%               33.3% 11.2% 1.2% 0.7%
11 月 47.0%               31.4% 13.6% 1.5% 0.5%
10 月 47.5%               29.8% 15.7% 1.6% 0.4%
9 月 46.6%               27.3% 17.2% 1.8% 0.3%
8 月 47.4%               21.0% 24.0% 1.9% 0.5%
7 月 47.9%               12.1% 33.3% 1.9% 0.6%
6 月 47.3%               1.2% 43.4% 2.3% 0.4%
5 月 47.7%                 44.3% 2.9% 0.5%
4 月 47.1%                 43.4% 2.8% 0.9%
3 月 46.5%                 42.2% 3.0% 1.3%
2 月 46.4%                 41.5% 3.8% 1.1%
1 月 45.5%                 39.5% 4.6% 1.4%
                         
2008 总计               FF 3.0 FF 2.0 FF 1.5 Moz
12 月 44.7%               38.1% 6.2% 0.1% 0.3%
11 月 44.6%               35.9% 8.0% 0.3% 0.4%
10 月 44.5%               34.9% 8.7% 0.4% 0.5%
9 月 43.1%               31.9% 10.1% 0.6% 0.5%
8 月 44.2%               25.5% 17.5% 0.7% 0.5%
7 月 43.1%               20.7% 21.1% 0.8% 0.5%
6 月 41.5%               8.9% 31.2% 0.9% 0.5%
5 月 40.5%               2.9% 35.9% 1.0% 0.7%

The above statistics are based on user W3CSchool website.


Firefox 29

Firefox 29 released on April 29, 2014.

Firefox 29 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Some re-design tools and an updated interface
  • Enhanced Firefox Sync Service
  • Menu over the right corner
  • The new "customization tools", where you can add or move features and add-ons
  • Users can click to create a bookmark
  • Support CSS box-sizing property (without -moz- prefix)
  • Support HTML5 input type = "number"
  • Support HTML5 input type = "color"

Firefox 28

Firefox 28 released on March 18, 2014.

Firefox 28 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Mac OS X: Notification Center (Notification Center) notification support web
  • Level HTML5 audio / video volume control
  • WebM support in Opus
  • Achieve VP9 video decoding
  • Support MathML 2.0 'mathvariant' property
  • Report background thread
  • Support multi-line layout flexbox

Firefox 27

Firefox 27 released on February 4, 2014.

Firefox 27 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • For Firefox Social API is a major update - now allows users to run multiple services
  • Support for Google's SPDY 3.1 protocol and Transport Layer Security (TLS - Transport Layer Security) version 1.1 and 1.2 - These are basically famous successor to SSL encryption protocol
  • Use "all: unset" Reset Stylesheet
  • Support set of fields rolling
  • CSS cursor key -moz-grab and -moz-grabbing has no prefix
  • Math functions are supported Math.hypot ()
  • Support dotted line on the canvas (Canvas)

Firefox 26

Firefox 26 released on December 10, 2013.

Firefox 26 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • All Java plug-in defaults to "click to play"
  • Password Manager supports script-generated password field
  • Supports H.264 video encoding on Linux
  • Supports MP3 audio on Windows XP - which completed across Windows operating system versions MP3 support
  • When the site requests AppCache, tips removed
  • Support CSS3 image-orientation property
  • The new Application Manager (App Manager) - allows you to deploy on Firefox mobile operating system and Firefox OS simulator program and debug HTML5
  • IndexedDB can be used as a "optimistic" storage area - Use LRU eviction policy, it does not require any tips and data in the storage pool, just a short temporary storage
  • Reduce memory usage, improved image processing

Firefox 25

Firefox 25 released on October 29, 2013.

Firefox 25 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Network Audio Support
  • CSS3 background-attachment: local support
  • iframe document content can be specified inline
  • Many new ECMAScript 6 functions are available
  • Profiler (Profiler) tool can save and load test results

Firefox 24

Firefox 24 released on September 17, 2013.

Firefox 24 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Enable support for WebRTC (in the on Android)
  • Share NFC on Android
  • Close tabs to the right to increase large-scale function
  • OS X 10.7 on the new scroll bar style
  • The chat window is dragged into a separate window
  • SVG optimization significantly in the rendered image around and zoom when the image tile
  • To enhance the debugging experience improved browser console to replace the existing error console
  • Revocation list function is no longer supported
  • Not supported from an application configuration file or directory file loaded sherlock

Firefox 23

Firefox 23 released on August 7, 2013.

Firefox 23 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android mobile version.

New features:

  • The new logo
  • Mixed content Blocker - by fully qualified URL, to prevent unsafe reading web content
  • Share button - allows the user only needs through a simple click, you can share them with friends / family
  • Specially designed for developers of network monitoring tools - website components break down, and notify developers time to load

Firefox 22

Firefox 22 released on June 25, 2013.

Firefox 22 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android mobile version.

New features:

  • Fixes 14 security issues
  • By default, Enable WebRTC
  • OdinMonkey - Improved JavaScript performance
  • HTML5 can change the audio / video playback rate
  • The new display scaling option is enabled by default - the larger text presented on high-resolution displays
  • Wrap text file

Firefox 21

Firefox 21 Posted on May 14, 2013.

Firefox 21 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android mobile version.

New features:

  • Firefox Health Report (Firefox Health Report) - a tool for adjusting your browser
  • Improved startup time
  • Supports HTML5 <main> element
  • Support scope with style sheets
  • Three "do not track" option: "Track", "do not track" and "not set"
  • Extended social API (Social API) - add a new social service: Cliqz, Mixi and msnNOW, and Firefox's Facebook Messenger (one kind of desktop windows chat client)

Firefox 20

Firefox 20 released on April 2, 2013.

Firefox 20 can run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android mobile version.

New features:

  • New Download Manager
  • Private browsing window
  • See the developer tools in a separate window
  • In case the browser does not hang down a hung plug
  • <canvas> now supports mixed-mode
  • Various <audio> and <video> Improved

Firefox 19

Firefox 19 released on February 20, 2013.

Firefox 19 can run on Windows, Mac and Linux.

New features:

  • The new built-in PDF reader - no plug-ins to read PDF
  • @page support printing of documents
  • Export contents of the canvas as an image - the contents of the canvas element by toBlob () exported as a picture
  • Implement CSS Viewport - percentage unit of length (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
  • Support CSS text-transform: full-width
  • Faster start
  • XForms has been removed

Firefox 18

Firefox 18 released on January 8, 2013.

Firefox 18 can run on Windows, Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion), Linux and Android.

New features:

  • IonMonkey - new JavaScript compiler (7% faster than Firefox 17 - 26%)
  • Retina display support
  • Built-in PDF viewer
  • Initial support network real-time communication (WebRTC - Web Real Time Communication)

Firefox 17

Firefox 17 Posted on November 20, 2012.

Firefox 17 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Update Awesome Bar - with larger icons
  • Tags animation
  • Social API (Social API) - Allows you to log in to your social networks (Facebook) through a browser
  • Click Play to achieve - to prevent the vulnerable plug-in version have not been permitted to run under the user / li>
  • Inspector for the page HTML / DOM add new tag panel
  • Implement HTML5 Sandbox (sandbox) attribute (for iframes)
  • Support for Mountain Lion's Notification Center (Notification Center)

Firefox 16

Firefox 16 released on October 9, 2012.

Firefox 16 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Local Support PDF
  • The new Developer Toolbar - Allows you to access the Web console, checker and debugger.Toolbar itself supports a number of command
  • VoiceOver support for OS X,
  • Support Web applications - started using Mozilla app catalog of applications
  • Incremental garbage collection (Incremental Garbage Collection) - speed up your browser, recycle / reuse memory JavaScript programs you no longer use
  • No prefix in support of Firefox 16 in CSS3 animations, transition effects (Transitions), conversion (Transforms) and gradient (Gradients).

Firefox 15

Firefox 15 Posted on August 28, 2012.

Firefox 15 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Seamless background update
  • Most stop memory leaks caused by the additional components
  • Support SPDY networking protocol v3
  • WebGL enhancements
  • HTML5 - Support <source> The media attribute
  • HTML5 - support the <audio> and <video> in the played attribute
  • CSS3 - support CSS word-break property
  • Faster Debugger
  • The new design tool that allows Web developers to between desktop and mobile site view switch
  • Local support Opus audio codec

Firefox 14

Firefox 14 Posted on July 17, 2012.

Firefox 14 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Privacy features - Firefox to use HTTPS to encrypt your Google search
  • Bug fixes - full-screen support for the Mac OS X Lion
  • Security Features - You can put frequently visited sites into trusted sites and whitelist

Firefox 13

Firefox 13 released on June 5, 2012.

Firefox 13 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • The default home page can access your bookmarks, history, and other settings quickly
  • When you open a new tab, users can see their most frequently visited pages
  • By default, enabled the SPDY protocol for faster browsing supported sites
  • A total of 72 improvements, including the Page Inspector (Page Inspector), HTML panel, Style Inspector (Style Inspector), register (Scratchpad) and Style Editor (Style Editor)
  • Improved support for the following CSS properties: column-fill, CSS3 background- position
  • Support: invalid pseudo-class
  • Now supports CSS3 <angle> unit type

Firefox 12

Firefox 12 Posted on April 24, 2012.

Firefox 12 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Windows: Firefox through a little easier to update prompt (User Account Control)
  • Page source code line numbers
  • Wrap support in title attribute
  • It supports text-align-last CSS property

Firefox 11

Firefox 11 released on March 13, 2012.

Firefox 11 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Style Editor (Style Editor) - a new style sheet editor.Visit any page, then select the style editor from the Web Developer menu (Style Editor)
  • "Inclined" 3D view page structure - checking tool provides a "3D" button
  • Support CSS text-size-adjust property (controlling a mobile device text size, and zoom in to a web page display scroll bars)
  • Support outerHTML property
  • Firefox can migrate into the bookmarks, history and cookies from Google Chrome
  • When viewing the source code, HTML5 tags correctly highlighted
  • Files can be stored in the IndexedDB
  • Moz prefix removal of Websockets API

Firefox 10

Firefox 10 Posted on January 31, 2012.

Firefox 10 can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

New features:

  • Page Inspector (Page Inspector) / CSS inspector (CSS Inspector) - allows developers to check HTML and CSS
  • Register (Scratchpad) - Displays the syntax code editor for JavaScript developers highlight
  • The new 3D graphics processing power and content WebGL anti-aliasing
  • Full Screen API - enables developers to create full-screen applications and games, full-screen video content transfer
  • Supports CSS 3D conversion

Firefox 9

Firefox 9 Posted on December 20, 2011.

Firefox 9 runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

New features:

  • Adds type inference (Type Inference), improved JavaScript performance (30% faster than Firefox 8)
  • For Mac OS X Lion integration improvements relating
  • For the Mac OS X Lion adds two fingers sliding navigation
  • Increased by JavaScript query "do not track" state support
  • Added support for the CSS3 font-stretch
  • Improved support for HTML5, MathML and CSS

Firefox 8

Firefox 8 Posted on November 8, 2011.

Firefox 8 can run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

New features:

  • Twitter search engine is installed by default
  • Disable third-party plug-ins by default
  • A new "Add-ons dialog box, select" Allow authentication plug-in upgrade
  • Tags can be "at demand" is loaded, it quickly store window with multiple labels
  • Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing ), allows developers in a safe manner to load WebGL textures from other domains
  • HTML5 context menus support
  • Firefox for Android is: Mozilla has also added more features to the Firefox browser to run on Android devices

Firefox 7

Firefox 7 Posted on September 27, 2011.

Firefox 7 can run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

New features:

  • Improved memory handling
  • When using Firefox sync bookmarks and passwords change always immediate synchronization.
  • "http: //" prefix of the URL is hidden by default (the same as Chrome)
  • The WebSocket protocol update from version 7 to version 8
  • A system for users to add to the performance data is sent back to Mozilla

Firefox 6

Firefox 6 Posted on August 16, 2011.

Firefox 6 can run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

New features:

  • The address bar is highlighted you visit the website domain
  • Streamlined appearance of the site identity block
  • By a prefix API, it adds support for the latest draft version of WebSockets.
  • Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
  • Added support for the window.matchMedia
  • Adds Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
  • Added a new Web Developer menu item, move the item to which the related development
  • Increase the availability of Web Console (Web Console) of
  • Improve Firefox sync discovery capabilities
  • When using Panorama (Panorama), reducing the browser's startup time.

Firefox 5

Firefox 5 released in June 2011.

Firefox 5 can run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

New features:

  • Adding CSS animation support
  • Tuned HTTP idle connection logic to improve performance
  • Improved canvas (canvas), JavaScript, memory and network performance
  • Improved support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL and canvas (canvas) standards.
  • Improved Spell Check
  • Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
  • WebGL content is no longer load cross-domain textures (textures)
  • Background label restricted setTimeout and setInterval is 1000ms, in order to improve performance

Firefox 4

Firefox 4 released in March 2011.

Firefox 4 can run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

New features:

  • It supports more than 80 languages!
  • Once the fastest Firefox - Firefox is six times faster than previous releases of speed.
  • Applications tab - a permanent home, display frequently visited sites, such as Web e-mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.
  • Switch to tab - easily find and switch to any Awesome Bar on the open tabs.
  • Save time when you drop the label to a management group in order to navigate multiple open tabs -a development view (Panorama).
  • Firefox Sync - across multiple computers and mobile devices to access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and data.
  • The new Add-ons Manager - more than 200,000 add-ons that can be used to customize Firefox feature, function and appearance.
  • Is not Tracking - allows users to select Exit tracking for behavioral advertising.
  • Privacy First - to prevent others from accessing your browser history.
  • HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS, HTTP Strict Transport Security) - to establish a secure connection to stop the "middleman" attacks, in order to protect the security of sensitive data.
  • Content Security Policy (CSP, Content Security Policy) - by allowing the site to tell the browser which content is legitimate, to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.
  • JIT compiler - with the enhancement of existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey's interpreter for faster page loading speed and better performance.
  • HTML5 support - including hardware-accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data storage, professional typography, touchscreen interface and the Mozilla Audio API.
  • Improves existing tools - such as CSS, canvas (Canvas) and SVG.
  • Uninterrupted browsing - When Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plug-in crashes, uninterrupted user's browser.

Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6 released in January 2011.

Firefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which since the beginning of 2009 the development, Web developers, widget developers and users to include a number of improvements, this version is also faster than the previous version, more responsive and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Maemo.

New features:

  • Personas theme - allows users to change Firefox's appearance by clicking
  • Prevent the installation of an outdated plug-ins - When users browse the Web, ensuring user safety
  • Open the local video can be displayed full-screen, frame support announcement
  • Improved JavaScript performance
  • Asynchronous running script for Web developers the ability to - in order to speed up page load times
  • Supports downloadable Web fonts - using the new WOFF font format
  • Improved support for CSS3, DOM and HTML5's

Older versions of Firefox

Firefox 3.5 - released in June 2009.

Firefox 3.0 - released in June 2008.

Firefox 2.0 - released in December 2006.

Firefox 1.5 - released in November 2005.

Firefox 1.0 - released in November 2004.


Firefox Resources

Firefox support site
Firefox support site includes a searchable knowledge base, download center, product FAQ, and auxiliary support directory.