Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox has 23.75% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of September 2009, making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer.[5][update]
To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.[6]
Latest Firefox features[7] include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing (aka "geolocation") based exclusively on a Google service[8] and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through add-ons, created by third-party developers,[9] of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users.
Firefox runs on various versions of Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.5.3, released on September 9, 2009.[10] Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/MPL.[11][update]
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