what is fire fox

Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Firefox is known for its privacy and open-source principles, which make it a unique web browser. Unlike other browsers, Firefox does not sell users personal data to advertisers or services like Google. Firefox also blocks known third-party trackers, social media trackers, cryptominers, and fingerprinters from collecting users data. Firefox introduced and popularized many of todays standard browser features, such as the bookmark toolbar, tabbed browsing, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. The name Firefox was said to be derived from a nickname of the red panda, which became the mascot for the newly named project.