Firefox

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Firefox is a popular browser on UNIX, Windows and other operating systems. A browser is a kind of user-agent for the HTTP protocol. I.E. it speaks the HTTP protocol for the purpose of sending and receiving information on the World Wide Web. If you're using a Vistua workstation you are probably reading this page in Firefox.

Firefox and other browsers provide functions such as "history" and "bookmarks" for organizing URIs (termed "pages"). Firefox also provides "tab" functions which allow the organization of discrete pages as tabs in the user-interface, integrated search, "plug ins" and a sophisticated extension framework.

Firefox is a browser, a program that allows you to access webpages, such as this one, a browser is different from a website, which is a remote resource displayed in a browser, and is different from The Internet in general, which is a superset of web pages. A browser is also different from Vistua Groupware Mail, which is actually a program-like website that appears in a browser.

Firefox is very customizable and special extensions for modifying its appearance are available. Extensions are third-party packages which alter the appearance and behavior of the browser per the users wishes.

Regardless, Firefox is not without problems. It does not integrate very well into X11 desktops and technologies, it is also slow and crashes often. It is not actually as bad as certain other browsers though.

• Firefox has its own Knowledge Base
• What is a Browser? (This short video was made to encourage people to discontinue using MS Internet Explorer browser, but succinctly describes what a browser is.)

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