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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] The name "Firefox" (a reference to the red panda) [16] was chosen for its similarity to "Firebird", and its uniqueness in the computing industry.
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.
Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers. Before its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004, Firefox had already garnered a great deal of acclaim from the media, ranging from Forbes to the Wall Street Journal. With over 5 million downloads in the first 12 days of its release, Firefox 1.0 is ...
Firefox 57, which was released in November 2017, was the first version to contain enhancements from Quantum, and has thus been named Firefox Quantum. A Mozilla executive stated that Quantum was the "biggest update" to the browser since version 1.0. [45] [46] [47] Unresponsive and crashing pages only affect other pages loaded within the same ...
The history of the Mozilla Application Suite began with the release of the source code of the Netscape suite as an open source project. [1] Going through years of hard work (with the help of the community contributors), Mozilla 1.0 was eventually released on June 5, 2002.
TLS/SSL support history of web browsers Browser or OS API Version Platforms SSL protocols TLS protocols ... Mozilla Firefox (Firefox for mobile) [n 17] 1.0, 1.5
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 Mozilla SeaMonkey Firefox Safari Maxthon Lunascape; Jan 8.1 SM 1.0 Feb 1.0 Mar Apr M. 1.7.13† [2] May Jun 9.0 Jul Aug Sep Oct 2.8.6 7.0: 2.0: Nov 4.0 Dec 9.1 2007 Lynx Netscape Opera IE ...
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.