Firefox is a free web browser that was developed as an alternative to Internet Explorer. Its origins can be traced to Netscape Navigator. Firefox has features like tabbed browsing and extensions that add functionality. Popular extensions include ad blocking and modifications to menus.

1. How Firefox Works
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Takahiro Kageyama

2. Introduction to How Firefo
x Works
● A Web browser is sort of like the tires o
n your car. You don't really give them mu
ch daily thought, but without them, you're
not going anywhere. The second somethi
ng goes wrong, you definitely notice.

3. Firefox History
● The origins of Firefox can be traced dire
ctly to Netscape, a compan­y whose Web
browser, Netscape Navigator, was the do
minant browser before Microsoft develop
ed Internet Explorer.

4. Firefox Basics
● The easiest way to learn about Firefox is
to go ahead and download it (it's free). T
here you'll find the latest version of Fire
fox: Firefox 3.5. If you're hesitant to inst
all and learn to use a new program, rest
assured that Firefox looks and acts very
similar to Internet Explorer and most ot
her Web browsers.

5. Firefox Features
● That virtually every other browser, includi
ng Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Go
ogle Chrome, has also adopted them. One o
f the most noticeable is tabbed browsing.

6. Firefox Extensions
● Firefox extensions range from the indis
pensable (ad blocking) t­o the utterly sill
y (an extension that changes the Option
s menu's definition of "Cookies" from a te
chnical explanation to "Cookies are delici
ous delicacies"). Here are a few of the mo
re notable extensions.