Mozilla Firefox (known simply as Firefox) is a
free and open-source web browser
developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with a mobile
version for Android, by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout
engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web
standards.
Waterfox is an
open-source web browser
based on Mozilla Firefox, for 64-bit
Windowssystems. As there is no official 64-bit version of Firefox for
Windows, Waterfox may be used as an alternative.According to the developers,
Waterfox is geared towards speed. It is compiled using the Intel C++ Compiler, and uses Intel's Math Kernel
Library, Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 and Advanced Vector Extensions. It is
compatible with Firefox add-ons and 64-bit NPAPI browser
plug-ins.Although Firefox outperformed Waterfox in Peacekeeper browser benchmark tests ran by TechRepublic
in 2012,Waterfox showed a mild improvement over Firefox in tests run by Softpedia
in 2014.
Wyzo was a web browser
based on Mozilla Firefox by Radical Software Ltd.The authors
claim it is intended to download and manage all types of media, and they are
naming it a Media Browser[peacock term]
instead of a web browser. It is currently in Beta development stage and supports Microsoft
Windows and Mac
OS X but not Linux.
SeaMonkey is a
free and open-source Internet
suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the
same source code.
The development of SeaMonkey is community-driven,
in contrast to the Mozilla Application Suite, which until its last released
version (1.7.13) was governed by the Mozilla Foundation. The new project-leading
group is the SeaMonkey Council. The SeaMonkey Council, which is
the team responsible for project and release management, currently consists of
Philip Chee, Karsten Düsterloh, Jens Hatlak, Robert Kaiser, Ian Neal, Neil
Rashbrook, Andrew Schultz and Justin Wood.
Comodo IceDragon is a Firefox-based open source web browser from the Comodo Group. It is intended to be faster and more secure than Firefox.
Pale Moon is a
web
browser based on Mozilla Firefox.It is available for Windows
platforms and distributed by M.C. Straver. Pale
Moon builds on Firefox, optimizing for efficiency of code
and aimed at current and modern microprocessors.
Pale Moon is available free of charge as open source
code archive and freeware binary
releases.Because it is based on Firefox this makes most of the available
Firefox extensions and plugins
compatible with Pale Moon.
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