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Firefox (other)
Firefox is a web browser. Firefox or fire fox may also refer to: * Firefox (mythology), a creature in Finnish folklore * ''Firefox'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Craig Thomas ** ''Firefox'' (film), a 1982 American film based on the novel ** ''Firefox'' (video game), an arcade game based on the film ** Mikoyan MiG-31, a fictional aircraft from the novel * Firefox OS, an operating system for tablets and phones * Eurofly Fire Fox, an Italian aircraft design * Red panda or fire fox, a Himalayan tree mammal * F15 Firefox, a scooter by Malaguti * Firefox bikes, a bicycle brand of Hero Cycles * Fire Fox, a move used by Fox McCloud in ''Super Smash Bros.'' * A red fox The red fox (''Vulpes vulpes'') is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus ... with a genetic mutation causing a distinctive black and orange coat, also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply 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, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Firefox is available for Windows 10 or later versions of Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and other operating systems, such as ReactOS. Firefox is also available for Android and iOS. However, as with all other iOS web browsers, the iOS version uses the WebKit layout engine instead of Gecko due to platform requirements. An optimized version is also available on the Amazon Fire TV as one of the two main browsers available with Amazon's Silk Browser. Firefox is the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator, as the Mozilla community was created by Netscape in 1998, before its acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefox (mythology)
Firefox (tulikettu or tulirepo or tulikko) is a mythical creature in the folklore of northern and eastern Finland. It is a fox whose tail twinkles fire.Tulikettutarinoita Ilmatieteenlaitos According to folk stories, the Firefox lives far away in hideouts in the woods, or in the north, and very few are said to have seen it. Firefox is black during days but twinkles fire during nights. When Firefox's skin is brushed in a right manner it glitters strange light. According to stories, the leather of a Firefox has been used to illuminate powder storages at nights instead of dangerous open fire. The leather of a Firefox has been considered as immensely valuable. Hunters dream of the Firefox, since it has been said that catching it makes the hunter rich for the rest of his life. Firef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefox (novel)
''Firefox'' is a thriller novel by British novelist Craig Thomas, published in 1977. Set amid the Cold War, the plot recounts an attempt by the CIA and MI6 to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft. The lead character, Mitchell Gant, is an American fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran turned spy. The book was made into a 1982 film adaptation produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars as Gant. A bestseller, the book had 33 printings in the 17 years following its publication, and has been credited with starting the "techno-thriller" genre. Thomas researched the novel's subject with help from former Royal Air Force friends. Despite its level of detail, it took only four and a half months to complete. Sphere Books printed a 250,000-copy paperback edition, leveraging the recent 1976 defection of Viktor Belenko, a Soviet Air Defence pilot who flew his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan and gained asylum in the United States. Belenko's defection occurred just as Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefox (film)
''Firefox'' is a 1982 American action techno-thriller film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The cast also includes Freddie Jones, Kenneth Colley, Warren Clarke, and Nigel Hawthorne. Based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Craig Thomas, ''Firefox'' is the only film appearance of Thomas' character Mitchell Gant. The film recounts Gant's mission to secretly enter the Soviet Union, hijack a cutting-edge fighter plane, and fly the aircraft back into American hands. Although the story is largely set in the Soviet Union, Cold War considerations meant that Eastwood's and Fritz Manes' Malpaso Company used several locations in Austria, including Vienna, for many scenes. One source states that the film was shot on a $21 million budget, the largest-ever production budget for Malpaso. Another source indicates that over $20 million was spent on special effects. The effects have been called "particularly innovative," as the "reverse bluescreen" technique was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefox (video Game)
''Firefox'' is a 1984 shoot 'em up arcade video game based on the 1982 Clint Eastwood Firefox (film), film of the same name. It was produced in 1984Atari Vax emails "And to my knowledge, Coin-op has yet to sacrifice quality to get an on-time delivery. ''Firefox'' was supposed to start production 1/23/84; millions in parts are all staged ready for production, but it has not started (1/31/84) because the software is not ready". as Atari, Inc.'s only LaserDisc video game. Like Atari's first-person ''Star Wars (1983 video game), Star Wars'' and ''Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (arcade game), Empire Strikes Back'', ''Firefox'' came as both an upright and sit down cabinet with a yoke (aircraft), yoke style controller. Development ''Firefox'' was primarily designed by Mike Hally and Dave Ralst ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Military Aircraft
This is a list of fictional aircraft, including fixed-wing aircraft, rotary wing aircraft, and lighter-than-air craft. The aircraft in this list are generally intended to operate in an atmosphere, though a few have been stated as being capable of exoatmospheric or sub-orbital flight as well. These aircraft appear in notable works of fiction, including novels, stories, films, TV series, animation, video games, comics, and other works. They are either the subject of the work or an important element. Fighters * ACG-01 Chimera: A prototype aircraft with exceptional maneuverability and responsiveness, it can be equipped with the RDBM (Remote Detonation Burst Missile) and the EUFB ( Experimental Uranium Freefall Bomb). From '' Project Wingman'' (2020). * Advanced Dominance Fighter: A family of supermaneuverable air superiority superfighters developed by Gründer Industries in the ''Ace Combat'' series of video games. ** ADFX-01/02 Morgan: A family of experimental fighters capabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefox OS
Firefox OS (project name: ''Boot to Gecko'', also known as ''B2G'') is a discontinued Open-source software, open-source operating system made for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, and Matchstick TV, dongles designed by Mozilla and external contributors. It is based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web browser, Gecko (software), Gecko, and on the Linux kernel. It was first commercially released in 2014. Firefox OS was designed to provide a complete, community-based alternative operating system, for running web applications directly or those installed from an application marketplace. The applications use web standards, open standards and approaches such as JavaScript and HTML5, a robust privilege (computing), privilege model, and Open Web, open web APIs that can communicate directly with hardware, e.g. cellphone hardware. As such, Mozilla with Firefox OS competed with commercially developed operating systems such as Apple Inc., Apple's iOS, Google's Android (operati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurofly Fire Fox
The Eurofly Fire Fox (sometimes Firefox) is an Italian ultralight aircraft designed and produced by Eurofly srl of Galliera Veneta. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 150. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. Design and development The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The Fire Fox features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration. The aircraft is made from a combination of ALS 500 steel tubing and 6082 aluminium alloy tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its span wing lacks flaps and has a wing area of . Each wing is supported by two parallel struts with jury struts. The sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Panda
The red panda (''Ailurus fulgens''), also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It has dense reddish-brown fur with a black belly and legs, white-lined ears, a mostly white muzzle and a ringed tail. Its head-to-body length is with a tail, and it weighs between . It is well adapted to climbing due to its flexible joints and curved semi-retractile claws. The red panda was formally Species description, described in 1825. The two currently recognised subspecies, the Himalayan and the Chinese red panda, Genetic divergence, genetically diverged about 250,000 years ago. The red panda's place on the Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree has been debated, but modern genetic evidence places it in close affinity with Procyonidae, raccoons, Mustelidae, weasels, and Mephitidae, skunks. It is not closely related to the giant panda, which is a bear, though both possess elongated wrist bones or "Sesamoid bone#Other animals, fal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaguti
Malaguti was an Italian bicycle, scooter (motorcycle), scooter and motorcycle company based in San Lazzaro di Savena, founded by Antonino Malaguti in 1930. Producing bicycles until 1958, they then entered the motorcycle market. Noted for their use of small engines in their bikes. In October 2011, Malaguti laid off its remaining employees in Bologna, Italy as the company eventually folded. In 2018 the brand name was purchased by the Austrian firm KSR Group GmbH. History Born in 1930 in Bologna as a resale and repair shop for bicycles thanks to Antonino Malaguti, a twenty-two year old who in the mid-twenties had been a promising young cyclist, Malaguti soon became a manufacturer of cycles with an appreciated production, even if limited to the Bologna area. Having escaped the bombings of the Second World War, the company immediately resumed production and, given the enormous demand for post-war means of locomotion, in 1949 it began to build an economical two-engine with a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero Cycles
Hero Cycles Limited, based in Ludhiana, Punjab, is an Indian company that manufactures bicycles and bicycle related products. Pankaj M Munjal is the chairman and managing director of Hero Cycles. History Hero Cycles was established in 1956 in Ludhiana Punjab, manufacturing bicycle components. Today, Hero Cycles is one of the world's largest manufacturers of bicycles, producing 18390 cycles per day. Hero Cycles Ltd. is part of Hero Motors Company. In 2016 Hero cycles exported to over 70 countries world-wide. The company is ISO9001 & ISO14001 certified. The company acts in part as a white label manufacturer to various brands, in addition to selling motorcycles under the Hero and UT (formerly Urbantrail) brands. Hero Cycles bought the Firefox bicycle brand in 2015. In 2015, Hero Cycles Lt. bought a majority stake in Avocet Sports Ltd., a UK distributor of bicycles, e-bikes, bicycle parts, and accessories. Insync Bikes brand was launched by Avocet in November 2018. In 2019, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox McCloud
is a fictional character and the chief protagonist of Nintendo's ''Star Fox'' series. He is an anthropomorphic red fox created by Shigeru Miyamoto and designed by Takaya Imamura. He was introduced as the sole playable character in the original 1993 video game ''Star Fox''. From each game, to varying extents depending on the entry, the player controls Fox in his Arwing. He is the leader of the Star Fox team and is joined by his wingmates during various missions. Fox is the protagonist of several ''Star Fox'' games, comics, and other media. He has been featured in several other game franchises, including as a playable character in every installment of the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series. Fox has received a positive critical response, though his portrayal in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series divided critics. Concept and design In 1992, Nintendo and Argonaut Software collaborated to produce a 3D space shooter for the Super NES, provisionally titled 'SnesGlider'. The development t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
