Other early examples of techno-thriller, written before the category had been well defined as a sub-genre, include Moonraker by Ian Fleming, Fail-Safe ( 1962 ) by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, The Penetrators ( 1965 ) by Hank Searls ( writing as Anthony Grey ); Tree Frog by Martin Woodhouse ( 1966 ), North Cape ( 1969 ) by Joe Poyer, and Firefox by Craig Thomas ( 1977 ), later made into a movie, and Shuttle Down, by G. Harry Stine ( writing as Lee Correy ) ( 1981 ).

In the 1983 novel Firefox Down by Craig Thomas, captured American pilot Mitchell Gant is imprisoned in a KGB psychiatric clinic " associated with the Serbsky Institute ", where he is drugged and interrogated to force him to reveal the location of the Firefox aircraft, which he has stolen and flown out of Russia.

The novel Firefox Down is a continuation of the story of Firefox, beginning at the moment at which the previous book had concluded.

Many of the characters of Firefox and Firefox Down return for the novel Winter Hawk ( 1987 ) and A Different War ( 1997 ).

The 1984 UK cover to Firefox Down by Craig Thomas.

Firefox Down is a 1983 novel by author Craig Thomas.

Unlike its predecessor, Firefox Down did not become a feature film.

Aside from being an immediate sequel to Firefox, Firefox Down fits within the larger fictional universe of the Craig Thomas novels.

As with Gant, Priabin has a major role as an antagonist / protagonist in Winter Hawk, largely based on a personal vendetta against Gant due to the events of Firefox Down.

The cover to the 1984 UK version of Craig Thomas ' Firefox Down.

It is a sequel to his novel Firefox.

Dmitri Priabin ( a KGB officer with a minor role in Firefox ) has an expanded role in its sequel ; his lover has been working for the Americans under the codename Burgoyne, forcing Priabin to choose between recapturing Gant and saving the woman.

Yuri Andropov, who was the Chairman of the KGB in Firefox ( first published in 1975 ) retains this role, even though by the time the sequel was published, he had already become the General Secretary of the CPSU, as explained in a prefatory note inserted by the author.

Gant is ideally trained to steal Firefox, having already trained to fly in captured Russian planes.

Refueled and armed with captured Soviet missiles, Gant continues on his journey, only to confront the second Firefox prototype, which the Soviet dissidents failed to destroy.

In Firefox, an Anglo-American intelligence scheme inserts Gant into the Soviet Union in order for him to steal one of 2 prototypes of a revolutionary fighter plane, the MiG-31, NATO code name " Firefox " ( not to be confused with the real MiG-31, a development of the MiG-25 ).

After crossing the Soviet Union from Moscow to the airbase where the Firefox is being developed, with the help of various MI6 agents and several false identities ; dissident scientists involved in the project create a diversion allowing Gant to steal the plane.

Craig Thomas dedicated the first edition of the novel to actor / director / producer Clint Eastwood, who starred as Mitchell Gant in the film adaptation of the first novel, stating, " For Clint Eastwood — pilot of the Firefox ".

As with the first novel, the book focuses on the efforts of Mitchell Gant to steal the fictional prototype MiG-31 Firefox Soviet aircraft.

At the climax of Firefox, Gant engaged in combat with a second MiG-31 ; the second novel begins mere moments later, with Gant discovering that his aircraft sustained damage in the dogfight and is losing fuel rapidly.

After a brief engagement with two Soviet MiG-25s, Gant lands the Firefox onto a frozen Finnish lake.

Engelbart has served on the Advisory Boards of the University of Santa Clara Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Foresight Institute, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, The Technology Center of Silicon Valley, and The Hyperwords Company ( producer of the Firefox add-on Hyperwords.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, opining that " In an ideal world, every web request could be defaulted to HTTPS ", has provided an add-on called HTTPS Everywhere for Mozilla Firefox that enables HTTPS by default for hundreds of frequently used websites.

E. g., Konqueror has native MNG / JNG support, and MNG / JNG plugins are available for Opera, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox.

The Mozilla site has an overview of the modules which are supported in Firefox and of the modules which are in progress in the development.

Font downloading was later included in the CSS3 fonts module, and has since been implemented in Safari 3. 1, Opera 10 and Mozilla Firefox 3. 5.

An online version of the latest edition can be accessed through the paid Westlaw legal information service and as of late 2006, West Academic has published Black's Law Dictionary Digital, 8th edition ( ISBN 9780314176103 ) which has toolbars that integrate with Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

In a 2008 overview of extensions for Firefox in Linux Journal, Dan Sawyer described ChatZilla as an " oldie-but-goodie ", " venerable ," " with all the trimmings ," " handsomely organizes chat channels, logs, has an extensive built-in list of available channels, supports DCC chats and file transfers, and has its own plugin and theming architecture.

* Firefox: from version 3. 5 enabled by default for ICC v2 tagged images, version 8. 0 has ICC v4 profiles support

It was first released in Firefox 4 and has since entirely supplanted TraceMonkey.

, Firefox has approximately from 20 % to 24 % of worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the second or third most widely used web browser, according to different sources.

The Firefox project has undergone several name changes.

Firefox has passed the Acid2 standards-compliance test since version 3. 0.

Because Firefox generally has fewer publicly known unpatched security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer ( see Comparison of web browsers ), improved security is often cited as a reason to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox.

InfoWorld has cited security experts saying that as Firefox becomes more popular, more vulnerabilities will be found, a claim that Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, has denied: " There is this idea that market share alone will make you have more vulnerabilities.

Historically, Gentoo has provided pre-compiled binary packages for many common programs, especially those which are lengthy to compile, such as Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice. org.

Alongside Avant, the developer used to have a sister project known as Orca Browser, an Avant-like shell of Mozilla's Gecko layout engine as used in Firefox 3 and it has similar approaches to Flock.

The foundation has an ongoing deal with Google to make Google search the default in the Firefox browser search bar and hence send it search referrals ; a Firefox themed Google search site has also been made the default home page of Firefox.

One can render this in an XML-enabled browser ( such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox ) by pasting and saving the DTD component above to a text file named example. dtd and the XML file to a differently-named text file, and opening the XML file with the browser.

Special symbols should display properly without further configuration with Mozilla Firefox, Konqueror, Opera, Safari and most other recent browsers.

An even more fundamental update of the macro system was made concurrent with the development of K-Meleon 1. 1, which is based on the Gecko 1. 8. 1 rendering engine that is used in Mozilla Firefox 2. 0 and SeaMonkey 1. 1.

Some earlier versions of Firefox ( e. g., versions between 1. 5 and 4. 0 ) and some other outdated web browsers that can display SVG graphics needed them embedded in or elements to display them integrated as parts of an HTML webpage instead of using the standard way of integrating images with.

The browser shown is Firefox 3. 0 with generic " abrowser " branding on Ubuntu ( operating system ) | Ubuntu.

# Pre-compiled binaries are provided for some applications with long build times, such as OpenOffice. org and Mozilla Firefox, provided by upstream maintainers.

It is also one of the five browsers displayed on the first page of browser choices along with Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.

Notable exceptions were Safari, starting with version 2. 0, and Firefox starting with version 3.

Firefox implements many web standards, including HTML4 ( partial HTML5 ), XML, XHTML, MathML, SVG 1. 1 ( partial ), CSS ( with extensions ), ECMAScript ( JavaScript ), DOM, XSLT, XPath, and APNG ( Animated PNG ) images with alpha transparency.

Firefox also implements a proprietary protocol from Google called " safebrowsing " ( used to exchange data related with " phishing and malware protection ").

While some believe that Epiphany should be the default web browser in Linux distributions with GNOME as the default desktop environment, the common practice is to distribute Firefox instead.

Although this differentiation was introduced in 2003, to this date most webbrowsers ( including the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox ) do not function as might be expected with the ' new ' extensions: even when a. wma or. wmv file is specifically encoded for progressive download, browsers still proceed to completely download the file before playing it.

Firefox 3 enables OCSP checking by default along with versions of Windows including Vista and later.

The Skolelinux project also cooperates with many other free educational software projects such as LTSP, gnuLinEx, Edubuntu, K12LTSP, KDE, Gnome, Firefox and OpenOffice. org.

The Opera web browser supports the CSS property, the Firefox web browser supports the CSS property with the same meaning.

However, by the end of the first browser war, the Internet suite market dwindled to one or two competitors every few years ; in reaction, alternative routes of profit or funding were sought ( Opera Software, for example, moved away from offering the Opera Internet suite with embedded advertisements to a completely ad-free product ), and Mozilla ( spun out of Netscape ) began to separate the Mozilla Application Suite into separate projects: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, but development of suite continued with Seamonkey internet suite and after several years it is very active and under Mozilla umbrella.

The last part, starting with " Mammon awoke " speaks of the release of Internet Explorer 7 and with " it was naught but a follower " describes it as a follower, copying several of the functions in Firefox that Internet Explorer previously lacked.