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• Firefox uses the open-source Gecko layout engine, which implements some current Web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards. • It includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and a search system that uses Google. • Functions can be added through more than 2,000 add-ons created by third party developers;[3] the most popular include NoScript (script blocker), FoxyTunes (controls music players), Adblock Plus (ad blocker), StumbleUpon (website discovery), DownThemAll! (download functions) and Web Developer (web tools). • Phishing Protection has been added to Firefox's existing protection against spyware, viruses and pop-ups. • It runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. |