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Firefox 4 is the first version of Firefox to drop native support of the Gopher protocol; however, continued support is available through an add-on. [ 28 ] Firefox 4 introduces an audio API , which provides a way to programmatically access or create audio data associated with an HTML5 audio element. [ 29 ]
Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser, first released as Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004. Starting with version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks.
Firefox is free-libre software, and thus in particular its source code is visible to everyone. This allows anyone to review the code for security vulnerabilities. [18] It also allowed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to give funding for the automated tool Coverity to be run against Firefox code.
The first official release (Firefox version 1.0) supported macOS (then called Mac OS X) on the PowerPC architecture. Mac OS X builds for the IA-32 architecture became available via a universal binary which debuted with Firefox 1.5.0.2 in 2006. Starting with version 4.0, Firefox was released for the x64 architecture to which macOS had migrated ...
On April 4, 2011, Mozilla Messaging was merged into the Mozilla Labs group of the Mozilla Foundation. [46] Following in the footsteps of Firefox, Thunderbird switched to a rapid release cycle in 2011. [47] Version 4.0 was skipped so as to re-align Thunderbird with Firefox's version 5.0, both released in June 2011. [48]
Firefox 2.0.0.20 was the final version that could run under an unmodified installation of Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, and Windows Me. [ 60 ] [ failed verification ] [ 61 ] Subsequently, Mozilla Corporation announced it would not develop new versions of Firefox 2 after the 2.0.0.20 release, but continued Firefox 2 development as long as other ...
Firefox for Android runs on the Android mobile operating system and uses the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox; for example, version 1.0 used the same engine as Firefox 3.6, and the following release, 4.0, shared core code with Firefox 4.0. Firefox for iOS, which runs on the iOS mobile operating system, does not use the Gecko Layout ...
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