Ben Goodger currently works as the lead developer of Firefox. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a pared-down browser (then known as Phoenix, today known as Firefox), with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. They believed that the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. By JanuFirefox had been downloaded 1 billion times.įirefox has become the foundation's main development focus (along with its Thunderbird email client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release.īlake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project.

On October 19, 2005, Firefox had its 100 millionth download, just 344 days after the release of version 1.0. With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after its release, Firefox became one of the most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among home users. Much about Firefox has improved since then.īefore its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004, Firefox had already gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Since its release, Firefox has significantly reduced Internet Explorer's dominant usage share.

Currently, Firefox is the 3rd most popular browser in the world. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox is the first such browser to achieve wide adoption.įirefox has attracted attention as an alternative to other browsers such as Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome (or Chromium on Linux). Firefox also attempts to produce secure software and fix security holes promptly. Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, built in Phishing protection, support for open standards, an extension mechanism for adding functionality and localization for Firefox in different languages. Firefox has now become the foundation's main development focus. Its current release is Firefox 89.0.1, released on June 17, 2021, and ESR (Extended Support Release) build is version 78.11.0, released on June 1st, 2021.įirefox strives to be a lightweight, fast, intuitive, and highly extensible standalone browser. Mozilla Firefox (originally known as 'Phoenix' and briefly as 'Mozilla Firebird') is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers.

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