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On November 19,2008 Mozilla add-on website hits the mark of one billion downloads. According the Mozilla the add-on download count is only from the addons.mozilla.org but some of the add-on are also hosted some were else. This is a real good story for Mozilla add-on because last day Mozilla has launched the Fashion Your Firefox a set of Mozilla Firefox add-on.
Mozilla has introduced an application that will help users to accelerate the customization for Firefox. it offers different sets of add-on, based on that selected add-on you can speed up your customization for Firefox. Firefox has more than 5000 of add-on that are available free for users. Firefox add-on are little extras that allow you to add a personal touch to your browser and make more familiar. users can select the favorites from the categories available on Web.By these add-on you will gain performance improvements of several seconds when loading pages. If you don’t already have Firefox, you may download from the online application that provides different nine sets of Firefox extensions whereas each set contains some add-on from their you can directly download according to your requirement.
Firefox the only big threat to Microsoft Internet Explore is now extended it’s deal with Google till 2011. This means that Google will be the default search provider for Mozilla Firefox browser. Users after installing the Firefox browser can change the default search provider , means user can choose any search provider but most of time users won’t change the default search provider.
This deal left one question : Google says Microsoft can’t use Live search as a default search provider for Internet Explorer but Google is paying a good amount of money to Mozilla for having Google as their default search provider. In both the cases users can easily change the search provider.?
Last year, Baker said that she would not hesitate to walk away from the lucrative partnership if that was what was necessary to remain independent. Baker said in an interview with Computerworld in October 2007
We’ve spent a lot of time and energy making sure that Google understands that it cannot turn us into an arm of Google," . "If the protection of [our independence] would come into conflict with Google, or any of our search partners, we would opt for the community who built Firefox and love Firefox.
