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Presentation on FireFox And Thunderbird

Table Of Contents • What Is FireFox…….?? – Web Browser…??

• System Requirements For FireFox. • Various Versions Of FireFox. • History Of FireFox.

• Pros & Cons Of FireFox. • Comparison With Internet Explorer(IE). – Security Difference. – Terminology Diffenrence. – Picture View Difference.

• Various Themes In FireFox.

• What Is Thunderbird…….?? • System Requirements For Thunderbird. • Various Versions Of Thunderbird. • History Of Thunderbird. • Features Of Thunderbird.

• Thunderbird Mail Client Vs Web Mail. – Advantages Over Web Mail.

• Top Toolbar. • Main Window. • Address Book. • Problems Or Possible Deficiencies. • Conclusion.

FireFox • What It Is………..?? • • • • •

Web Browser By Mozilla. Sep 23, 2002 [ Ver 1.2 (0.1) ]. Lighter Ver Of Mozilla’s Netscape (Seamonkey). Free Of Cost. Various Features.

System Requirements General PC Requirements with Microsoft • Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater) • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) • 52 MB hard drive space •

98/98SE/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP (Recommended)

Linux Software Requirements • Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages. • glibc 2.3.2 or higher, XFree86-3.3.6 or higher, gtk+2.0 or higher, ontconfig (also known as xft) and libstdc++5.

Minimum Hardware On Linux -

Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater).

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64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) & 52 MB hard drive space.

Macintosh Requirements · PowerPC 604e 266 MHz (Recommended: PowerPC G4 667MHz or greater) ·

64 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater) & 72 MB hard drive space.

· OS X 10.1.x or 10.2.x and later.

Other Unix Platforms · Sun Solaris for SPARC Systems. · FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD

Versions Of FireFox Versions Under 1.2 Browser Name – Phoenix. -

0.1 (Pescadero) – Sep 23, 2002. 0.2 ( Santa Cruz) – Oct 1, 2002. 0.3 (Lucia) – Oct 14, 2002.

Versions Under 1.3 -

0.4 (Oceano) – Oct 19, 2002. 0.5 (Naples) – Dec 7, 2002.

Versions Under 1.5 Browser Name – Mozilla FireBird -

0.6 (Glendable) – May 17, 2003. 0.6.1 – July 28, 2003. 0.7 (Indio) – Oct 15, 2003. 0.7.1 (Three Kings) – Oct 26, 2003.

Versions Under 1.6 Browser Name – Mozilla Firefox -

0.8 (Royal Oak) – Feb 9, 2004. 0.9 (One Tree Hill) – June 15, 2004. ………………….

Latest & Future Version – Mozilla FireFox 2 (2.0 – FireFox 2 “Bon Echo”) & Mozilla Firefox 3 early in 2007.

History Of FireFox • Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. • First version on Sep 23, 2002. • Browser name at the beginning – Phoenix. • On May 17, 2003 named as Mozilla FireBird. • On Feb 9, 2004 named as Mozilla FireFox (a common name for red panda). • From FireFox 1.5 no support for Macintosh.

Advantages Of FireFox • Tabbed Browsing. • Popup Blocking. • Finding Stuff Is Easier Or Searching. • Simplified Privacy. • Better Bookmarks And History.

• Better Accessibility & Responsive. • Customizable & Extensible. Themeable. • Modern Download Manager. • Free Of Cost. • Help For Internet Explorer. • Custom Keywords.

Disadvantages Of FireFox • Slow Initial Loading. • Lack Of HTML Editor. • Older Versions. • Weak RSS Support. • Memory Hog.

• Specific Image Blocking. • Page Zoom.

Comparison With IE Security Difference • Not Integrated With Windows. • Support For VB Script & ActiveX. • Doesn’t Use MS Java VM.

Terminology Difference IE Internet Options Temporary Internet Files Favourites Address Bar Refresh

FireFox Options Cache Bookmarks Location Bar Reload

IE

FireFox

Links Bar Copy Shortcut Save Target As

Picture View IE

Bookmarks Toolbar Copy Link Location Save Link As

FireFox

Various Themes In FireFox

Conclusion

Thank You Presented By Nitin Kapoor Richa Sharma