At one time, when I just switched from Windows XP to more modern operating systems, I, like other browser users, noticed in the list installed applications there is something new on the computer. In the control panel, next to the installed browser, there was an object called mozilla maintenance service - I did not know what kind of program it was, and, not wanting to leave an unknown application on the computer, I decided to find the answer to this question.
Appointment
In fact, the appearance of this service is to blame for the Firefox browser itself. The fact is that in new operating systems there is a component called UAC, which when a user tries to install something on a computer or make changes to the system settings, issues a corresponding request, and sometimes it requires administrator rights.
In the process of collecting information, I found out about mozilla maintenance service that this application is responsible for disabling the user control service during browser updates. As a result of this installation new version browser is "silently" and invisible to a person sitting in front of a computer. After the installation process is complete, the UAC service continues to function normally.
In a word: the maintenance service is a completely harmless component for the system, which you can simply ignore. However, if necessary, it can be disabled or deleted, which does not affect the stability of the browser.
Disconnection
Now that we have learned about mozilla maintenance service what it is, I’ll talk about how to disable this service. This is done in the settings. firefox browser. The user will need:
- Launch Browser.
- Open the menu in the upper right corner of the program window.
- Select the "Settings" item from the drop-down menu.
- Open the "Advanced" section and go to the "Update" tab.
Next, you just need to uncheck “Use the background service to install updates” and apply the changes. You can see how this looks in practice in the screenshot below:
So, we found out about mozilla maintenance service what it is, the photo above showed the mechanism for disabling it. Now consider the removal procedure for this application.
Delete
To uninstall the Mozilla background update service, you can use the standard windows featuresby going to the appropriate section of the control panel. This is done as follows:
- Open the Start menu.
- Select "Control Panel". If you are using Windows 8, or the display of this menu item is disabled, then use the search bar in the "Start" menu, entering the phrase "Control Panel" and selecting the appropriate object from the results.
- Go to the "Programs and Features" section.
- Find “Mozilla Maintenance Service” in the application list and delete it by clicking the corresponding button.
Important! When reinstalling the browser this program will appear in the list of installed applications again, and it will need to be deleted again.
So we figured out this unknown application from mozilla. I repeat that its presence does not do any harm to the operating system, and deleting or disabling the service does not affect the stability of the browser.
In this article, we decided to review the use of the program. In the review, we will try to move away from the official names and tell in detail in an understandable language to users who are just starting their way in the world of the Internet. The review will be written on an example Mozilla firefox version 3.6.10 (Russian version).
So Mozilla Firefox program to browse the web. Right! Yes, it is with this program that you can climb the Internet. When you start the program for the first time, you will see something like this window.
This is the window mozilla Browser Firefox, popularly called this program fairfox, scum, fox, fox, fox and more. If you hear such a name, do not be surprised. All the names of Mozilla Firefox come from the name of the program itself, we can assume that from the emblem-picture, on which, as soon as possible, a creature resembling a fox hugs a ball resembling Earth.
So, here we see the buttons at the top, at the bottom, in the middle, let's see why they are. For a better understanding, we will try to make out all the frequently used ones.
Let's start with the most commonly used buttons. Namely, this panel:
So, on the right is the address bar, now the text is written there as follows
This means that we are now at such an address on the Internet. Left-click on an address to make it stand out and type the following address www.google.com . What can we say, we went to Google. Your browser window will look like this:
Is it clear what the address bar is for? In it you need to drive the address of the site we want to go to.
We look further. Arrows on the left. When we surf (surf) on the Internet, moving from site to site or from one page of a site to another, then the arrows are activated. Conditionally can name them as “forward” and “back”. It is precisely this function that they perform. That is, you went to page 1, read selected and clicked on page 2, read and decided to return to page 1, for this we click on the left arrow and we return to page1. The prince of an arrow pointing to the right is logically clear.
Circular blue arrow. This is an arrow refresh page. Suppose if the data is updated on the page, a failure has occurred and for some unknown reason the update has not occurred. For example, you look online football result. And Suddenly the page stopped updating, then you need to update it manually.
A cross is used to pause page loading. This happens if the sites you visit are very resource intensive. Surely there were such sites. To stop loading the site, click “Cross”.
Button in the shape of a house. This button immediately takes you to the home page. A little further we will tell how to change its value.
Let's now parse the top panel.
What buttons are there: File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, Help.
File button. Our novice user of the entire set of commands that are offered when you click the “File” button (hereinafter we will call our button as the “File” menu) will only need the following commands, namely “Save As” and “Print”.
“Save As” What is this button for? Suppose you liked some kind of web page, you wanted to save it on your computer and go to it without using the Internet. Do not forget that the page is saved on your computer, which means that you just copied a piece of the site on your computer. This piece of the site is not a complete site, for the full use of the site naturally you need the Internet. We recommend that you try, but do not bother much, since if you always have the Internet at hand, there is no special need for this button.
Button “Print“. The name itself already says what it is for. Yes, for print. You can also set the print to your favorite browser mozhel using the shortcut keys CTRL + P.
Let's move on. We see the next menu “Edit”. What can we find useful here? There is an important button here, it is called “Find”. The button can also be called by pressing CTRL + P, advises you to remember. Very comfortably.
Click on it with the left mouse button or call CTRL + P. A window appears at the bottom of our browser.
What is the “Find” button for? If you went to a page with a lot of text, and you need to find a specific word. Read the text just do not have time. But let's say you need to look at five, ten, one hundred pages and where to find the time to read everything? Exactly. In the window, enter the desired word and presses the button that is activated just to the right of the input window of the search. Try searching, this will greatly speed up the work with web pages.
Why do we need these same encodings. It happens that when you go to the site it shows the following:
As we see the hieroglyphs. And our site is in Russian. To make the text readable, we try to switch one encoding, then another, until the text on the site becomes readable Russian. This can come in handy, although in most cases firefox automatically selects the desired encoding. We advise you to adopt. In the event that you have tried all the encodings and nothing has changed, forget about this site. Most likely this is a poor-quality service.
Next we see the “Log” menu. This menu may come in handy when you need to look at which sites have visited your browser recently. That is, you went to the site. We read something, then closed the tab with the site, then remembered that there was useful information, but forgot the site address. It's okay, just go to the magazine menu and you will see recently closed tabs from sites.
View method closed tabs, useful to the director to check their subordinates. After all, we all know very well how nice it is to have the Internet in your workplace and do your own business on the Internet, and not to do the work done.
Bookmarks menu. It will be useful for users to store site addresses.
That is, you go to your page, for example, in “ vkontakte.ru”, Saved it and now if necessary login to vkontakte website just click on the “Bookmarks” menu and go to the site. We recommend that you keep all useful and frequently used sites in your bookmarks.
Tools menu
This menu contains many settings and useful features. If you want to customize your “fox” more flexibly, then you are here. If everything suits you by default, but usually these are optimal settings, then there’s simply no need to change anything.
The only thing worth paying attention to is the setup button. Here are our recommended settings. Look carefully at the picture.
Here is the default homepage google.com.ua. Although if you are not comfortable with this option, you can write another page here. Let it be even an entrance to the VKontakte site, here it is a matter of purely everyone. In the download point, the settings are set as follows so that if you need to download something, FireFox will ask where to save the file, to which drive, folder.
Help Menu
We can recommend the last paragraph “About Mozilla Firefox”. Opening it, the user will see which version of the browser he has. If you have a permanent Internet connection, then Mozilla will load updates and update itself.
Successful work on the Internet.
becomes the second most common after Internet explorer. The reasons for the large use of Internet Explorer are unconditional, because it is installed in almost all operating windows systems. But the prevalence of Mozilla Firefox was influenced by several factors. It's open source, customization flexibility, plugins and cross-platform.
If you choose Mozilla Firefox, then you can be absolutely sure that run it on any operating system. Build the browser is carried out not only on Windows, Mas OS X or Linux, but also in all families of BSD, BeOS, Solaris, UNIX. It can also be used on operating systems. mobile devices. In general, Mozilla Firefox operates on all modern operating systems.
Unlike other browsersthat have maximum functionality in their content, Firefox decided to provide only the basic functionality that any user uses. All other functions that are needed only for certain users are included in additions.
A special system is installed in the browser to distribute add-ons where developers can write, as well as anyone. As a result, it has already written more than thousands of add-ons that give the browser the use of unlimited functionality.
These add-ons expand it functionality and change appearance.
Mozilla firefox - A convenient and modern browser, which is always in constant development. Developers often make new versions that are automatically delivered to the user. The browser will always notify you of a new version, and will check for updates established additions.
But for timely extensibility and flexibility will have to pay. The price is to increase system requirements. IN this browser slower interface operation. Therefore, users, accustomed to the speed of other browsers, with discontent abandon Mozilla Firefox. But not one similar browser can not provide the set of functions that this browser has.
This browser has:
Spell check
- Creation of different groups and folders, the ability to assign bookmarks to tags;
- Each user can create their own profile with bookmarks and stories;
- the ability to synchronize various settings and browser data on different computers and in any operating systems;
- preemptive opportunity for sets the distribution of open tabs;
- with frequently needed used web pages the ability to pin them in tabs.
Also in Mozilla Firefox, as in other modern browsers, you can find:
Automatic blocking of all quickly pop-up windows (the ability to configure the browser in any particular case);
- The function of "private browsing" of web pages;
- new integrated search bar;
- tabs or tabs;
- A mechanism for working with RSS.
The main advantage of Mozilla Firefox it becomes possible to set so-called master passwords, which block access to digital certificates and other available passwords. At the very first password setting, any user can determine its complexity using graphic elements.
Find quickly and the open source browser helps fix vulnerabilities for developers. There is a flaw in this openness. Any attacker can also examine the program code and find the vulnerability. Therefore, if you are interested in Mozilla Firefox, then it is better to download it on the official website of the project. And be sure to install extensions that will increase the security of browsing the Internet.
Do not be very afraid, Mozilla Firefox can protect itself. He is one of the most well protected and secure browsers. Firstly, all vulnerabilities found are much faster to close than on browsers of other manufacturers. Secondly, this is Google SafeBrowsing - an existing database of sites from the Google search project. The browser constantly updates the downloaded data from the database into the memory of the user's computer. And always warns about the presence of viruses, fake and fraudulent sites in the visited site. Since this data is updated quickly enough, surfing the Internet becomes safe and enjoyable. Thirdly, all downloaded files to the computer are scanned by a powerful antivirus located in the system.
In this case, of course, do not neglect other methods of protection.
Russian mozilla version Firefox offers by default its users to apply search engine from Yandex. But changing this and adding your favorite search engine will be very simple, just go to the search box menu.
