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Early description of what cookies are in the Preferences window of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3. This description was soon dropped in later versions. Firefox 1.0, the first release targeted for the general public. Due to continuing pressure from the Firebird community, [14] on February 9, 2004, the project was renamed again to Mozilla Firefox. [15]
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.
According to the Mozilla development roadmap published on April 2, 2003, the Mozilla Organization planned to focus development efforts on the new standalone applications: Phoenix (now known as Mozilla Firefox) and Minotaur (now known as Mozilla Thunderbird). To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is marketed as ...
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source [12] 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. [ 13 ]
On October 24, 2006, Mozilla released Mozilla Firefox 2. It included the ability to reopen recently closed tabs, a session restore feature to resume work where it had been left after a crash, a phishing filter, and a spell-checker for text fields. Mozilla released Firefox 3 on June 17, 2008, [40] with performance improvements and other new ...
List of Firefox features; Firefox Focus; Firefox for Android; Firefox Lite; Firefox Lockwise; Firefox logo; Firefox Portable; Template:Firefox release compatibility; Firefox Send; Firefox User Extension Library; Firefox version history
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Firefox also permits the "homepage" to be a list of URLs delimited with vertical bars (|), which are automatically opened in separate tabs, rather than a single page. Firefox 2 supports more tabbed browsing features, including a "tab overflow" solution that keeps the user's tabs easily accessible when they would otherwise become illegible, a ...