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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Firefox is the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator, as the Mozilla community was created by Netscape in 1998, before its acquisition by AOL. [18] Firefox was created in 2002 under the codename "Phoenix" by members of the Mozilla community who desired a standalone browser rather than the Mozilla Application Suite bundle.
Firefox was always downloadable for free from the start, as was its predecessor, the Mozilla browser. Firefox's business model, unlike the business model of 1990s Netscape, primarily consists of doing deals with search engines such as Google to direct users towards them – see Web browser#Business models.
Mozilla Firefox 4 is a version of the Firefox web browser, released on March 22, 2011. [6] The first beta was made available on July 6, 2010; Release Candidate 2 (a base for the final version) was released on March 18, 2011. [7] [8] It was codenamed Tumucumaque, [9] and was Firefox's last large release cycle.
Firefox version history From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
Firefox also has an incremental find feature known as "Find as you type", invoked by pressing Ctrl+F. With this feature enabled, a user can simply begin typing a word while viewing a web page, and Firefox automatically searches for it and highlights the first instance found. As the user types more of the word, Firefox refines its search.