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Get involved Join the fight for a healthy internet. Then, Another decision was made and the second name chosen was "Firebird", This caused a controversy on the part of the Firebird database and that in addition there was a constant pressure on the part of the community that forced to consider other names such as "Firebird Browser" and "Mozilla Firebird".
It was then that on February 9, it was finally renamed Mozilla Firefox It seems that Mozilla had or has a mania with animals with fire. In that same year and a few weeks before, the first version of Ubuntu was released to the world, which we already talked about in a previous article you can check it in the following link. That version of Ubuntu had version 0. And good, since then the browser has undergone various changes of which during the first years many of them were the main attractions of the browser to gain a large number of followers.
One of the most emblematic was the ability to improve the experience of using the browser with the help of the c plugins, as well as tabbed browsing, a download manager.
Hence, among others that were appearing and also eliminated over the years. Regarding the development of the browser, during the first years it was quite slow , since there was no established calendar as such, since by we barely found Firefox 4 and three months later Firefox 5 would be released.
Firefox was chosen in February and the first version was released in November of the same year. As of writing, Firefox remains a popular web browser currently on version 88 though it's Chrome and Safari dominating with far more users browsing on mobile devices than desktop. Netscape described this as giving everyone a level playing field. In , Netscape went public. Netscape was without any rivals. In the summer of , Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1. The browser wars had begun.
Over the next few years, Netscape and Microsoft competed for dominance of the internet. Each added features to compete with the other. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer had an advantage because it came bundled with Windows. On top of that, Microsoft had more programmers and money to throw at the problem. Toward the end of , Netscape started to run into financial problems. In January , Netscape open-sourced the code of the Netscape Communicator 4.
This strategy is designed to accelerate development and free distribution by Netscape of future high-quality versions of Netscape Communicator to business customers and individuals.
The project was to be shepherded by the newly created Mozilla Organization. However, the code from Netscape Communicator 4. On top of that, several parts could not be open sourced because of licensing agreements with third parties. In the end, it was decided to rewrite the browser from scratch using the new Gecko rendering engine. Starting from scratch was a major undertaking.
The following year, AOL announced that they would be shutting down browser development. The Mozilla Foundation was subsequently created to handle the Mozilla trademarks and handle the financing of the project. In March , Mozilla announced pl a ns to separate the suite into stand-alone applications because of creeping software bloat.
The stand-alone browser was initially named Phoenix.
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