#1 Firefox

Sorry it took so long to get this up every one, but it takes along time to get all the information that I would like.

But here is a brief blurb about the history of Firefox. Firefox was first released on September 23, 2002 as Phoenix, under the codename Pescadero, with the amazing features of a customizable toolbar and a quicksearch function. Its name then changed to Mozilla Firebird on May 17, 2003 and stayed there for only a few months, when on February 9, 2004 it finally became the current name, Firefox, with the codename Deer Park. Firefox 2, codenamed Bon Echo, was released on October 24, 2006 with the current version (2.0.0.11) being released on November 30, 2007. Other notable versions include 1.5 which incorporated localized builds and many other features, it was also the the last major release before Firefox 2. Version 0.3, codenamed Lucia, was the first to integrate tabbed browsing which had been developed by Opera.

In it present state it has many available features including:

1. Tabbed Browsing
2. Pop-up Blocking
3. Download Manager
4. Add-ons
5. Cross-platform Support
6. Various Security Enhancements
   
7. Microsummaries
   

And quite a few others that can be found through the above links.

Firefox 3 codenamed Gran Paradiso Is the last to be based on the original Mozilla browser, with Firefox being based on Mozilla 2.0, and is in early stages of development. Firefox 3 which is on it's third beta release, is estimated to be released in 2008 after 2 years of development.

Well that ends my first post on the applications in my top list of Linux programs hope you stay tuned in for more information on the other programs.