The Firefox project has gone through many name changes through its history. On April 3, 2003, The Mozilla Foundation announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a pared-down browser, 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. Firefox 2 was released on Octoand downloaded over 2 million times within 24 hours.Īs of September 2006, Firefox's usage share is around 12% of overall browser usage (see market adoption below), with its highest usage in Germany (about 39% as of July 2006).ĭave Hyatt and Blake Ross began working on the Firefox project as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after the initial 1.0 release, Firefox became one of the most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among home users. Firefox is often abbreviated as FF officially it is Fx.įirefox had gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, even before its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004. Started as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the Mozilla Foundation's flagship product. Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers.

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