History of Firefox

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005. Version 2.0 was released on October 24, 2006 and Firefox 3.0 was released on June 17, 2008. Version 3.5 was released on June 30, 2009 and Version 3.6 was released on January 21, 2010. Version 4.0 was released on March 22, 2011. Hyatt, Hewitt and Ross's browser was created to combat the perceived software bloat of the Mozilla Suite, which integrated features such as IRC, mail and news, and WYSIWYG HTML editing into one software suite.