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Happy 5th Birthday Firefox! Mozilla Browser Keeps Growing

by Jay Garrett on November 10, 2009

mozilla-firefoxIt’s hard to believe that 5 years has flown by.

But it was back in 2004 when the not-for-profit Mozilla, then with 12 employees and a handful of volunteers decided to take on Microsoft in the battle of the browsers.

Flash-forward to now and that same company has a 23% worldwide market share and has even overtaken IE usage in more than a dozen countries.

Firefox is to be thanked for the likes of tabbed browsing, integrated search engines and browser add-ons. Bless its little furry paws!


President of Mozilla Europe,Tristan Nitot, said to Sky News that the company’s initial mission to ensure browser “freedom” remained the same and added: “applications like a browser are a set of instructions put together by a developer. It does a lot on your behalf and you lose a lot by delegating this. It’s extremely important to remain in control.”

Don’t take this as ‘job done’ for Mozilla and Firefox.

Over the last couple of months another 30 million users have joined in the Firefox joy and Mozilla also has plans to slip into your pocket.

The new new mobile browser is still in Beta at the moment but be ready to see Fennec as often as you see Firefox starting next year :)

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firefox-logoFirefox 3.1 Beta 3 has just been released to the public.

The latest version of Mozilla’s internet browser is working but not quite finished – they have chosen you to download it and test it out.

What’s new then?

Well, Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 includes faster load times, extra support for geolocation and a new addition to Private Browsing Mode in the form of  a “Forget This Site” button.  This means that there’ll be no trace of you checking out The Saturday’s website (or even more naughty yet less embarrassing sites!).

Mozilla is still beavering away on Firefox 3.1, and Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 won’t be the final test version which is expected sometime this year

Mozilla reckon it has quite a lot to do – they’re saying the finished full version will actually be named Firefox 3.5.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is out to test on Windows, Mac and Linux now at Mozilla.

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Mozilla Files To Legalise iPhone Jailbreaking

February 20, 2009 Click to read more →

Firefox makers, Mozilla, have filed papers to the US Copyright Office in a move that sees them going head to head with Apple over the legally murkey process of iPhone unlocking. Mozilla is backing a proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make an exemption to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow a legal [...]