Many times our clients gives the list of web applications or websites which they like or there competitors. We need to check that websites and we want to How to check which CMS is used for web application and technologies they used in there website for development
How to check which CMS is used for web application
There is very nice firefox plugin available which will tell us about all application and script or CMS which are are used in any website. This firefox plugin is useful for every developer.
How to check which CMS is used for web application
Wappalyzer is an add-on for Firefox that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects CMS and e-commerce systems, message boards, JavaScript frameworks, hosting panels, analytics tools and several more.
Wappalyzer will be able to detect following application. Full list of application you will find here.
Firefox is mostly used by programmers and developers and designers as well. Here we have Best firefox addons for increase developers productivity. Now these days Firefox become so popular and so many common people are also started using the firefox for daily basis.
Best firefox addons for increase developers productivity
Firefox provides the very useful plugins or you can call as addon. Here are the list of some very popular and useful firefox addon list for increase your productivity.
Best firefox addons for increase developers productivity
CookieSafe is a useful extension that allows you to block cookies quickly for any given site. You can also control cookie permissions on a global level.
Remove Cookies for Site on the other hand allows you to quickly delete cookies for any site from the context menu. We can’t live without this one, since it definitely saves a whole load of time.
FastDial is a extension that brings a new feature to Firefox, which is available in Opera by default. FastDial replaces your home page
and allows you add and quickly access your favorite websites by displaying small thumbnails, clicking on which will take you to the website.
Though there may be several ways in which you can access your favorite websites, we prefer FastDial since it allows us to quickly access all our favorite sites when we open up a new tab.
There are several times when we have closed a tab by mistake, it was quite a pain to go back to the history and find out which tab we had closed. Undo Closed Tabs Button is a real life saver since it allows you to open the last closed tab with just the click of a button.
Since we spend a lot of time using Firefox, we prefer to use ReminderFox for several reasons. It definitely saved us a lot of time remembering birthdays, anniversaries, paying of cable and Internet bills and more without having to maintain another application
just for reminding us about important dates and events.
The default Firefox downloads window is pesky and keeps cropping up on us when a file starts to download and finishes downloading, we prefer to silence it once and for all using Download Statusbar a handy extension that will create a tiny little icon for downloads and put it in your statusbar.
Shareaholic is a great add-on for clubbing in several social networking tools into one, you can easily digg a page, stumble it, add it to facebook, reddit it, tumble it, save it to del.icio.us and more.
Following Firefox Addons are useful for programmers,
Web Developer is a powerful extension for developers. It definitely makes developing web pages quite easy. You can modify CSS on the fly, see which layers are using which styles, modify cookies, play around with images and practically do anything you would want to do as a developer.
User Agent Switcher quickly allows the user to change the user agent of the browser to see the behavior of web pages under different browsers.
Delicious Bookmarks
Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.
It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard. It captures Flash too!
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there’s more…
If you think there are more good firefox plugin than please suggest me.
Here in this article we given history of mozilla firefox. We tested our site with every firefox version and given the sanup shots. The The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project.
Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005. Version 2.0 was released on October 24, 2006 and Firefox 3.0 was released on June 17, 2008. Version 3.5 was released on June 30, 2009 and Version 3.6 was released on January 21, 2010.
Hyatt, Hewitt and Ross’s browser was created to combat the perceived software bloat of the Mozilla Suite (codenamed, internally referred to, and continued by the community as SeaMonkey), which integrated features such as IRC, mail and news, and WYSIWYG HTML editing into one software suite.
Firefox retains the cross-platform nature of the original Mozilla browser, using the XUL user interface markup language. The use of XUL makes it possible to extend the browser’s capabilities through the use of extensions and themes. The development and installation processes of these add-ons raised security concerns, and with the release of Firefox 0.9, the Mozilla Foundation opened a Mozilla Update website containing “approved” themes and extensions. The use of XUL sets Firefox apart from other browsers, including other projects based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine and most other browsers, which use interfaces native to their respective platforms (Galeon and Epiphany use GTK+; K-Meleon uses MFC; and Camino uses Cocoa). Many of these projects were started before Firefox, and probably served as inspiration.
Although the Mozilla Foundation had intended to make the Mozilla Suite obsolete and to replace it with Firefox, the Foundation continued to maintain the suite until April 12, 2006[1] because it had many corporate users, as well as being bundled with other software. The Mozilla community (as opposed to the Foundation) continues to release new versions of the suite using the product name SeaMonkey to avoid any possible confusion with the original Mozilla Suite.
On February 5, 2004 the business and IT consulting company AMS categorized Mozilla Firefox (then Firebird) as a “Tier 1” (meaning “Best of Breed”) open source product.[2] This meant that AMS considered Firebird (as it was called at the time) to be virtually risk-free and technically strong.
history of mozilla firefox
Phoenix 0.1, the first official release.
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Firefox 1.0, the first release targeted for general public.
The project which became Firefox started as an experimental branch of the Mozilla Suite called m/b (or mozilla/browser). When sufficiently developed, binaries for public testing appeared in September 2002 under the name Phoenix.
The Phoenix name was retained until April 14, 2003 when it was changed (after a short stint as Phoenix Browser) due to trademark issues with the BIOS manufacturer, Phoenix Technologies (who produce a BIOS-based browser called Phoenix FirstWare Connect). The new name, Firebird, was met with mixed reactions, particularly as the Firebird database server already carried the name. In late April, following a name change to Firebird browser (which lasted only a few hours), the Mozilla Foundation issued an official statement which stated that the browser should be referred to as Mozilla Firebird (as opposed to just Firebird). Continuing pressure from the Firebird community forced another change, and on February 9, 2004 the project was renamed Mozilla Firefox (or Firefox for short).
The name, “Firefox”, was chosen for its similarity to “Firebird”, but also for its uniqueness in the computing industry. To ensure that no further name changes would be necessary, the Mozilla Foundation began the process of registering Firefox[3] as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in December 2003. This trademark process led to a delay of several months in the release of Firefox 0.8 when the foundation discovered that in the UK Firefox had already been registered[4][dead link] as a trademark for software by The Charlton Company.[5] The situation was resolved when the foundation was given a license to use Charlton’s European trademark.
Early Firebird and Phoenix releases of Firefox were considered to have had reasonable visual designs, but were not up to the same standard as many professionally released software packages. In October 2003, professional interface designer, Steven Garrity, wrote an article covering everything he considered to be wrong with Mozilla’s visual identity.[6] The page received a great deal of attention. The majority of the criticisms levelled at the article were along the lines of “where’s the patch?”
Shortly afterwards, Garrity was invited by the Mozilla Foundation to head up the new visual identity team. The release of Firefox 0.8 in February 2004 saw the introduction of the new branding efforts, including new icons designed by silverorange, a group of web developers with a long-standing relationship with Mozilla, with final renderings by Jon Hicks, who had previously worked on Camino.[8][9] The logo was revised and updated later, fixing some flaws found when the logo was enlarged.[10]
The animal shown in the logo is a stylized fox, although “firefox” is considered to be a common name for the Red Panda. The panda, according to Hicks, “didn’t really conjure up the right imagery”, besides not being widely known.[9] The logo was chosen for the purpose of making an impression, while not shouting out with overdone artwork. The logo had to stand out in the user’s mind, be easy for others to remember and stand out while not causing too much distraction when among other icons. It was expected to be the final logo for the product.
The Firefox icon is a trademark used to designate the official Mozilla build of the Firefox software, and builds of official distribution partners.[11] For this reason, Debian and other software distributors who distribute patched or modified versions of Firefox do not use the icon. The crash reporting service was previously closed-source, but switched with version 3, going from a program called Talkback, to the open source BreakPad & Socorro.
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Various logos used during the development of Firefox.
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Blue globe artwork is distributed with Firefox source code, and is explicitly not protected as a trademark.
Early Firefox releases featured a preferences panel that described cookies by stating “Cookies are delicious delicacies”.
The phrase was representative of the programmers’ quirky sense of humor and a general reflection of the free software movement’s unconventional approach. The phrase became something of a cult legend and was even featured in an O’Reilly computer book.
The original text was inserted by Blake Ross, one of the lead developers of Firefox, because, he says, “describing something so complicated in such a small space was quite frankly the last thing I wanted to worry about after rewriting the cookie manager”.
However, in reflection of the growing acceptance and use of the Firefox browser in the Internet mainstream, the text was later changed. It was considered[12] a bug and was “fixed” by Mike Connor to read “Cookies are pieces of information stored by web pages on your computer. They are used to remember login information and other data”. The revision was regarded as more likely to be helpful for the less technically oriented computer users who were now using Firefox—representing Mozilla’s desire to appeal to mainstream users.
After this happened, the following remarks were made by Blake Ross over IRC to Mike Connor:
congratulations mconnor
you just destroyed a legend!
The text became a popular in-joke and on August 2004, the Delicious Delicacies extension, which is no longer maintained and updated, was released by Jesse Ruderman. This extension restored the old description of cookies, available in several languages.
As of Firefox 2.0, cookies no longer have a description in the preferences window.
On June 23, 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced that Firefox 1.1 (which became Firefox 1.5) and other new Mozilla products will no longer support Mac OS X v10.1. This is intended to improve the quality of Firefox releases on Mac OS X v10.2 and above. Users of 10.1 could still use Firefox versions from the 1.0.x branch (e.g. Firefox 1.0.7).
Firefox 1.5 was released on November 30, 2005. The original plan was for a Firefox 1.1 and later a Firefox 1.5. After the first two 1.1 alpha builds, the Mozilla Foundation abandoned the 1.1 release plan and merged it with the planned feature set of 1.5 instead, with 1.5 being released later than was planned for 1.1. The new version resynchronised the code-base of the release builds (as opposed to nightly builds) with the core “trunk” which contained additional features not available in 1.0, as it branched from the trunk around the 0.9 release. As such, there was a backlog of bug fixes between 0.9 and the release of 1.0, which were made available in 1.5. Version 1.5 implemented a new Mac-like options interface, which was the subject of much criticism from Windows and Linux users, with a “Sanitize” action to allow a person to clear their privacy related information without manually clicking the “Clear All” button. In Firefox 1.5, a user can clear all privacy-related settings simply by exiting the browser or using a keyboard shortcut, depending on their settings. Moreover, the software update system was improved (with binary patches now possible). There were also improvements in the extension management system, with a number of new developer features.
Also, Firefox 1.5 had preliminary SVG 1.1 support.[13] This unplanned movement may have been due to the release of Opera 8.0 on April 19, 2005, which supported SVG Tiny.[speculation?]
Alpha builds of Firefox 1.5 (1.1a1 and 1.1a2) did not contain Firefox branding. They were labeled “Deer Park” (which was Firefox 1.5’s internal codename) and contained a different program icon. This was done to dissuade end-users from downloading preview versions, which are intended for developers only.
Firefox 1.5.0.12 is the final version supported on Windows 95.
“Deer Park”, the codename of the Firefox 1.1 and 1.5 Alphas, did not include Firefox branding.
On March 22, 2006, the first alpha version of Firefox 2 (Bon Echo Alpha 1) was released. It featured Gecko 1.8.1 for the first time.
Firefox 2 was released on October 24, 2006 and contained many new features not found in Firefox 1.5, including improved support for SVG and JavaScript 1.7, as well as UI changes.
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.x is the final version supported on Windows NT 4.0, 98 and Me. Mozilla Corporation has announced that it will not develop new versions of Firefox 2 after the 2.0.0.20 release. They did however continue development of Firefox 2 as long as other programs, like the Thunderbird mail client, were depending on it. The final internal release was 2.0.0.22, released in late April 2009.
In December 2007, Firefox Live Chat was launched. It allows users to ask volunteers questions with hours of operation and the possibility of help after hours. Because this service is kept running because of volunteers, if there are not enough volunteers to help, they may not open during the official hours.
The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 3 on June 17, 2008. The first Firefox 3 beta (under codename ‘Gran Paradiso’). had been released several months earlier on 19 November 2007, which was followed by several more beta releases in the Spring of 2008 culminating in the June release.
One of the major changes in Firefox 3 is the implementation of Gecko 1.9, an updated layout engine. The new version fixes many bugs and implements new web APIs.
After several development releases, the final version was released on June 30, 2009. The current version is 3.5.10, released on June 22, 2010. Also, as of mid-December 2009, Firefox 3.5 is the most popular browser (when counting individual browser versions) passing Internet Explorer 7. It is the first version to accomplish this feat.
Version 3.6, released on January 21, 2010, uses the Gecko 1.9.2 engine and includes several interface improvements, such as “personas.” This release was referred to as 3.2 before 3.1 was changed to 3.5. The codename for this version was Namoroka.
One minor update to Firefox 3.6, version 3.6.4 (code-named Lorentz) is the first minor update to make non-intrusive changes other than minor stability and security fixes. It adds Out of Process Plugins (OOPP), which runs plugins in a separate process, allowing Firefox to recover from plugin crashes.
As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.6.6 is now available as a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux from http://www.firefox.com. This release makes a small change to the crash protection feature introduced in Firefox 3.6.4, increasing the amount of time that Firefox will allow a plugin to remain frozen before terminating it. For more information, see the Mozilla Blog announcement about the release.
The precursory releases of upcoming Firefox releases are codenamed “Minefield”, as this is the name of the trunk builds. As of June 2010, development for Firefox 4 takes place on the Mozilla trunk, with pre-release builds coming nightly.
Version 4.0
Nightly builds were marked as 4.0a1pre between February and June of 2008,[21][22] but were renamed to 3.1a1pre afterward.
Firefox 3.7 (Gecko 1.9.3) Alpha 1 was released on February 10, 2010.[23][24] Alpha 2 was released on March 1, 2010, Alpha 3 was released on March 17, and Alpha 4 was released on April 12, 2010. As of May 2010, Alpha 5 is being developed on the trunk. The version number 3.7 is a placeholder; this release is now planned to be Firefox 4.0 and is tentatively scheduled for November 2010.[25]
One of the main focuses is to improve the user interface. Mockups of a UI overhaul for the Windows version have been posted in the Mozilla Wiki. They show plans for many changes, including optionally display the tabs bar at the top of the window, integrating the status bar into the tab toolbar and integrating the search bar and the reload and stop buttons into the awesomebar.[26] The menu bar is not present in these mockups. The UI will use animations for manipulating tags and buttons.
The browser will be given a home tab. This will be similar to the new tab pages found in Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome. However, users are able to customise the button so that it takes the user to their homepage instead.
The installer on the Mac OS X will be redesigned to make installations easier. Also, the start up windows that appear when Firefox starts up will be eradicated to make the start up process quicker.
The preferences and add-ons manager windows will also be redesigned to better assist users.
“Door hanger” notifications will be added. This is to replace the current “bar” notifications, which can easily be spoofed by a web page.
The Gecko layout engine will be improved to support more HTML5 and CSS3 features.
As well as this, the Firefox Sync project will be integrated into the browser to allow users to sync things such as bookmarks and history with the cloud.
A new type of tab, called an application tab, can be placed in the tab bar. It is similar to the Mozilla Prism project, which allows web pages (such as Google Mail) to become applications.
Today, Mozilla is happy to release Firefox 3.6.4, the latest security and stability release for Firefox, used by nearly 400 million people around the world to browse the Web. This release provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users by isolating third-party plugins when they crash.
Results from our beta testing show Firefox 3.6.4 will significantly reduce the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games. When a plugin crashes or freezes while using Firefox, users can enjoy uninterrupted browsing by simply refreshing the page.
Mozilla recognizes that third-party plugins provide important functionality in many of today’s websites. At the same time, plugins can lead to problems for users as they browse. With the ability to automatically alert users when they have out of date plugins, and now crash protection, Firefox 3.6.4 allows users to experience all the content they love without any of the hassles. (If you’re not running Firefox, Mozilla recommends that you make a habit of visiting the Plugin Check page to keep your plugins up to date.)
At this time Firefox offers crash protection for Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight on Windows and Linux computers. Support for other plugins and operating systems will become available in a future Firefox release.
All Firefox users are encouraged to upgrade for free by using the “Check for Updates” function in the Help menu, or by visiting www.firefox.com. For more information, please visit:
How to set up Firefox Profile Manager on Fedora or Linux
Firefox has new functionality called Profile manager which will allow you to switch with multiple Users.
You can create many user profiles in Firefox and save that as per your choice.
setup Firefox Profile Manager on Fedora
Many times on same Firefox some user don’t want some addons or theme. That time we got some difficulties.
For avoiding this issue we can create the firefox profile in firefox.
In windows creating Firefox profile is very easy. Just open windows run window and type “firefox -P”. That sit!
You will see following screens.
Using this you can create the firefox profiles.
Now I am going to show you how to create the firefox profile in Fedora.
Mozilla Firefox is becoming more and more powerful tool in these days. Using right add-ons it will start to become a tool, You can`t live without as web-developer! Each of these plugins can make certain things easier and that`s especially important for web-developers
1. ColorZilla
ColorZilla offers You an advanced eyedropper, colorPicker, page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
2.Delicious Bookmarks
Delicious bookmarks is official Firefox addon for del.icio.us. It integrates your browser bookmarks and tags, to keep them in order and “easy to find” way.
3. Domain Details
Displays Server Type, Headers, IP Address, Location Flag, and links to Whois Reports. Shows links to check server status and cache when page fails to load.
4. DOM Inspector
DOM Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.
Check my firefox plugins screenshot.
5. Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…
6. Firephp
FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.
7. IE NetRenderer
Render the current page with IE NetRenderer
8. JavaScript Debugger
A powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.
9. JavaScript Options
Provides advanced JavaScript options for Firefox.
10. MeasureIt
Little Firefox extension that enables you to draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width or height of a element.
11. ScreenGrab!
Screengrab saves entire web pages as images. This tool will allow You to take screenshots of what is currently on your screen – you can even choose the portion of the screen you want to “grab”!
12. Speed dial
Direct access to your most visited websites
13.StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon helps you to find new sites very easy.If you are a web-developer, StumbleUpon can drive a huge amount of visitors to your website.
14. View Cookies
It adds a tab to the Page Info dialog box, which shows the cookies belonging to the current page.
15. View Source Chart
HTML Source Code GUI
16. Web developer
Web Developer`s tool bar probably will become one of the best plugins You`ve ever seen. It comes with his own tool bar that gives many useful tools for analyzing, validating and optimizing web-pages. The great thing about this plugin is that it’s on a few different browsers, so if you switch between them you will be able to use the same plugin on all.
