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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source
web browser developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with a mobile version for Android, by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.
Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.As of July 2013, Firefox has between 16% and 21% of worldwide usage, making it the third most popular web browser, according to different sources. According to Mozilla, Firefox counts over 450 million users around the world. The browser has had particular success in Indonesia, Germany, and Poland, where it is the most popular browser with 57%,
45%, and 44%
of the
market share, respectively.
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| Mozilla Firefox |
The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.
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The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled
Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark problems with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name,
Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project.In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name
Mozilla Firebird
to avoid confusion with the database software. After further pressure
from the database server's development community, on February 9, 2004,
Mozilla Firebird became
Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simply
Firefox. Mozilla prefers that Firefox be abbreviated as
Fx or
fx, though it is often abbreviated as
FF. The Firefox project went through many versions before version 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004.
