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The award-winning web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better. Now with Google Toolbar for free!

Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, easy of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web.

Features:
• Tabbed Browsing
Save time by viewing more than one page in a window
• Pop-up Blocking
Block annoying pop-up ads
• Better Security
Help keep computers safe from malicious spyware
• Google Toolbar
Enhanced search box suggests queries as you type

Firefox Features

Enjoy a Better Web Experience

The Web is full of possibilities and Firefox is full of helpful features to make your time online much more productive and comfortable.

Improved Tabbed Browsing
We love tabs as much as you do, so Firefox 2 will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own close button, but don’t worry - if you accidentally close a tab, just go to the History menu to bring it back from the list of “Recently Closed Tabs.” You’ll never be crunched for space anymore, either. When you have too many tabs open to comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will appear on either side, and a button on the right side will always show you an easy-to-read list of all your open tabs.

Spell Checking
Sometimes you’re in a rush, and can’t remember if it’s “i” before “e” or the other way around. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more important things.

Search Suggestions
Some of the search engines in Firefox 2 can read your mind, and actually suggest search terms for what you’re looking for. Just start typing into the Search bar, and a drop down list of suggestions will appear. (Works for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com.)

Session Restore
Losing your place while you’re doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart or closes when it comes back you’ll pick up exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running will all be restored. You can even set Firefox 2 to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page, so you’ll never lose your place again.

Web Feeds (RSS)
What do news headlines, indie rock podcasts, and pictures of kittens have in common? They’re all things that you can subscribe to with Web feeds. Firefox 2 gives you full control over Web feeds, showing you a preview and letting you choose how you want to subscribe. You can use a Firefox Live Bookmark, or a feed reader that you’ve installed on your computer, or through a Web service such as My Yahoo!, Bloglines or Google Reader.

Live Titles
Keep an eye on that auction or the status of a delivery using the new Live Titles feature in Firefox 2. Compact enough to fit as a bookmark label, Live Titles are regularly updated summaries of the most important information on a Web page. As the information on the page gets updated, so does your Live Title. Try one out in Firefox 2 by bookmarking www.woot.com.

Integrated Search
Firefox helps you find whatever it is that you’re looking for. The Search bar comes pre-loaded with search engines for Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search term in the Search bar and receive immediate answers from the search engine you’ve chosen. You can select a new search engine from the Search bar menu at any time, and add search engines from hundreds of your favorite Web sites.

Pop-up Blocker
Firefox keeps you in control of the Web pages you’re viewing, blocking annoying pop-ups. Firefox’s pop-up blocker notifies you when pop-ups are blocked via the information bar or icon on the lower right of the screen.
Streamlined Interface

Accessibility
Firefox delivers a better browsing experience for everyone - including those who are visually impaired. Firefox includes support for DHTML accessibility. Web developers can create pages that reduce the amount of tabbing required to navigate a document to minimize keystrokes for those with mobility disabilities. Firefox also includes support for Microsoft Active Accessibility, Microsoft’s accessibility API standard for Windows. This support allows Firefox to work with screen readers such as GW Micro’s Window-Eyes and Freedom Scientific’s JAWS. Firefox 2 (Windows version) meets US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.

Stay Secure on the Web
The Web is a great place, but sometimes you’ll encounter bad people. Firefox keeps you safe from spyware, hackers, scammers and spammers, using the power of a vigilant and passionate community to protect you 24/7.

Phishing Protection
Phishing Protection takes Firefox’s security to a new level, helping to safeguard your financial information and protect you from identity theft. When you encounter a Web site that is a suspected forgery (known as a “phishing” site) Firefox will warn you and offer to take you to a search page so you can find the real Web site you were looking for.

Open Source, More Secure
At the heart of Firefox is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.

Automated Update
Firefox’s update system always checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 40 different languages.

Protection from Spyware
Firefox will not allow a Web site to download, install, or run programs on your computer without your explicit agreement. Period. You will be notified whenever downloading or installing software, and Firefox will always tell you what’s happening so that you can stay in control of your computer.

Clear Private Data
Firefox offers the ability to clear all your private Web browsing data with just one click with the “Clear Private Data” tool. You can be confident that when you clear your private data in Firefox it’s gone - whether you are using your own computer or one at the library.

Personalize Your Browser
Choose from thousands of useful Add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox 2 to make it your own.

An Add-on for Everyone
You can choose from over 1,000 add-ons at the Firefox Add-ons Web site. A Firefox add-on can help you comparison shop, share bookmarks with your friends, see the weather in a corner of your browser, write to your weblog, get news, listen to music - all from inside the browser you already love. You can even change the appearance of your browser - from buttons to colors and fonts - so that it matches your own personal style.

Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes
The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Firefox 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.

Search Engine Manager
You can now quickly add, remove and re-order your search engines in the Search bar. Firefox 2 will also detect when a Web site has a search engine that can be installed, and will install it for you with a single click in the drop-down menu.

(source: mozilla.org)

Firefox Tuning

Rise up the speed of your Firefox Browser:

Open the configuration menu by typing in the following into the field where you normally fill in the URLs:

About:config

In the config menu you have to set up the following changes:

- network.http.pipelining (put “true”)
- network.http.proxy.pipelining (put “true”)
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests put on 100
- network.http.max-connections 48
- network.http.max-connections-per-server 16
- network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8
- network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4

You save the changes by clicking the right button of your mouse somewhere on the screen and choose new -> integer from the menu. Now you have to write nglayout.initialpaint.delay into the popup and type in number 0 into the next window.

That´s it, now you are able to surf much faster threw the internet with your Firefox browser!

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Software included inside the Google Pack ®:

Google Earth™ - 3D Earth Browser
• The whole world in real 3D photos
• Maps, driving directions, hotels, restaurants and more Link

Google Desktop Search™ - Desktop companion
• Find your emails, files etc. easy and fast
• Google search technology at home

Picasa™ - Photo organizer
• Find, edit, and share your photos in seconds
• Easily remove red eye and fix photos

Google Toolbar™ - for InternetExplorer
• Google search from any site
• translator, PopUp Blocker and more

Adobe™ Reader™ - PDF-Viewer Software
• View, print, and search PDF files via a redesigned interface
• Secure your documents and collaborate via online, real-time meetings Link

Mozilla™ Firefox™ - Internet Browser with Toolbar
• Browse the web quickly and securely
• Switch between pages quickly with tabbed browsing Link

Norton™ Security Scan™ - Securitysoftware
• Detects and eliminates viruses and internet worms
• Free detection updates and scheduled scanning Link

Spyware Doctor Starter™ - Anti-Spyware Software
• Detects and removes spyware, adware, trojans and keyloggers
• Includes Smart Updates and scheduling to protect your PC

Skype™ - Voice, video and chat with P2P
• Make free voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype
• Call landlines and mobile phones at pretty low rates Link

Real Player™ - Media player
• Play popular media formats, organize music and videos
• Transfer music to iPod and other portable media players Link

Gallery Player HD Images™ - Images/photos
• High-quality artwork and photos
• Perfect for your screensaver or desktop

Google Photos Screensaver™ - Photo screensaver
• Display photos from your PC and photo sharing sites
• Watch cinematic slideshows

Google Video Player™ - Video player
• Play videos purchased and downloaded through the Google Video website

Google Talk ™ - Voice and IM application
• Connect with your friends via IM or free voice calls
• Send and receive files and voice messages easily and quickly

- Firefoxis a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation / Firefox ist ein eingetragenes Warenzeichen der Mozilla Foundation
- Google Toolbar, Google Pack and Google are registered trademarks of Google Inc./ Google, Google Earth u.a. sind eingetragene Warenzeichen von Google Inc.
This Website is not associated with Google or Mozilla in any way - it´s here just to inform about Firefox and give you the opportunity to download useful software

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