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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 last version of Firefox for Windows 7 and 8 is Firefox 115 ESR, which was released in July 2023. [180] Its end-of-life was initially planned to be in October 2024, [ 181 ] however in July 2024, a Mozilla employee announced in a comment on Reddit that the company consider extending the support beyond the initial date, the duration of that ...
Firefox Safari Maxthon; Jan 1.6 Feb 2.8.5 0.8 Mar Apr May 7.5 Jun 0.8 1.7 0.9 Jul Aug 7.2 6.0 SP2 Sep 0.10 (PR) 1.0* Oct Nov 1.0 Dec 2005 Lynx Netscape Opera IE Camino Mozilla SeaMonkey Firefox Safari Maxthon Lunascape; Jan Feb Mar Apr 8.0 2.0 May 8.0 Jun Jul Aug Sep 8.5 SM 1.0α* 1.5 3.0* Oct Nov 1.5 Dec 2006 Lynx Netscape Opera IE Camino ...
Originally, it was planned to have a version 1.1 at an earlier date as the new Firefox version after 1.0, with development on a later version (1.5) in a separate development branch, but during 2005 both branches and their feature sets were merged (the Mozilla Foundation abandoned the 1.1 release plan after the first two alpha builds), resulting ...
In the second quarter of 2015, version 5 of the extension for Firefox was rebased using Mozilla's Add-ons SDK (previous versions used XUL). Firefox Quantum ceased support for extensions that use XUL or the Add-ons SDK [6] so the extension was rebased using WebExtensions APIs. As a result of Mozilla's changes, reliance upon the companion ...
Pale Moon's default user interface is the one that was used by Firefox from versions 4 to 28, known as Strata. [8] It always runs in single process mode and uses a rendering engine known as Goanna. [9] The browser has its own set of extensions [10] and supports legacy Firefox add-ons built with XUL and XPCOM, [11] [12] which Firefox dropped ...
Firefox OS - An open source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers mainly based on HTML5. Firefox Reality - A web browser optimized for virtual reality. Firefox Send - A web-based file sharing platform with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. Mariner - The improved layout engine based on code of Netscape ...