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Open-source Basilisk is a fork of Firefox with substantial divergence, especially for add-ons. Beonex Communicator: Gecko: GTK+: Open-source Discontinued A separate branch of the Mozilla Application Suite: Brave: Blink: GTK: Open-source Mozilla Public License, version 2 Camino: Gecko: Cocoa: Open-source Discontinued Formerly called Chimera ...
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and later versions include the Java Embedding plugin, [53] which allow Mac OS X users to run Java applets with the then-latest 1.4 and 5.0 versions of Java (the default Java software shipped by Apple is not compatible with any browser, except its own Safari).
LibreWolf does not include telemetry or auto-updating and certain features like Pocket are disabled. [10] [11] [12] It does not have sponsored shortcuts.By default, LibreWolf deletes the user's cookies and history when the browser is closed, but that feature can be disabled.
This article compares browser engines, especially actively-developed ones. [a]Some of these engines have shared origins. For example, the WebKit engine was created by forking the KHTML engine in 2001. [1]
Firefox originally permitted add-ons to extensively alter its user interface, but this capability was removed in 2017 and replaced with the less-permissive WebExtensions API. [3] [4] Several forks of Firefox retain support for XUL and XPCOM-based add-ons. Waterfox maintains a fork of the legacy Mozilla codebase for the Waterfox Classic browser. [5]
No No Yes Yes Adblocker Do Not Track setting in a user's web browser. Read Aloud: GPL-3.0: No No Yes Yes Accessibility A Text to Speech Voice Reader Stylus: GPL-3.0: No No Yes Yes CSS Customization Turn Off the Lights GPL-2.0: No No Yes Yes Customization Obscure or mask content other than a running video. uBlock Origin: GPL-3.0: No No Yes Yes
Firefox 8 was released on November 8, 2011 [26] and prompts users about any previously installed add-ons. Upon installation, a dialog box prompted users to enable or disable the add-ons. Add-ons installed by third-party programs were disabled by default, but user-installed add-ons were enabled by default.
The minimum OS then increased to Mac OS X 10.2 in Firefox 1.5 and 10.4 in Firefox 3. [188] [189] Firefox 4 dropped support for Mac OS X 10.4 and PowerPC Macs, and Firefox 17 dropped support for Mac OS X 10.5 entirely. [190] [191] The system requirements were left unchanged until 2016, when Firefox 49 dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6–10.8.