Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9
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Mozilla Firefox is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation.Official versions are distributed under the terms of a proprietary EULA.Firefox had 22.05% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of March 2009,making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide,after Internet Explorer.
To display web pages,Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine,which implements some current web standards in addition to a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
Firefox features include tabbed browsing,a spell checker,incremental find,live bookmarking,a download manager,and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine (Google by default in most localizations).Functions can be added through add-ons,created by third-party developers,of which there is a wide selection,a fact which has attracted many of Firefox's users.The most popular of these include the NoScript JavaScript disabling utility,Tab Mix Plus customizer,FoxyTunes media player control toolbar,Adblock Plus ad blocking utility,StumbleUpon (website discovery),Xmarks (bookmark synchronizer),WOT:Web of Trust security site advisor,DownThemAll!download enhancer,and Web Developer toolbar.
Firefox 3.0.9 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.8:
- Fixed several security issues.
- Fixed several stability issues.
- Many users experienced an issue where a corrupt local database caused Firefox to “lose” its stored cookies. (bug 470578)
- Fixed an issue where, starting with Firefox 3.0.7, inline image attachments on popular webmail services (like AOL and AIM) would not display. (bug 482659)
- Large forms would sometimes take a long time to submit. (bug 426991)
- In certain cases, new windows would not have proper focus. (bug 446568)
- See the Firefox 3.0.8 release notes for changes in previous releases.

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