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The History of Mozilla Firefox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there's-gonna-be-a-quiz-at-the-end dept.

Gsurface writes "Flexbeta has an article based on the history of Mozilla Firefox. The article goes build-by-build of every Firefox release since the early Phoenix days noting some of the most significant changes in every release."

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  1. big deal by us7892 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Meandering my around the ads, on this ad filled site, I finally chose the "printable version", so I could read the article in peace. I actually remember most of what is in this piece. Not much to see here...

  2. Have a look by Swamii · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Going way back to Slashdot circa 1998, posing the question, "Should Netscape GPL Mozilla?"? Link is http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://s lashdot.org/

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  3. tried ff and went back by chunderfest · · Score: 2, Interesting
    No matter which part of the phase you joined the team of Firefox users; there is one thing I am sure of, once you go Firefox, you never go back.

    I joined at 0.8 and left again at 1.0. The mozilla suite is just plain more stable, often faster, and doesn't have ff's longstanding habit of crashing when printing to a file if CUPS is installed. In addition, while the extensions architecture may be clunkier in the suite, it's also more robust (for me at least). ff 1.0 kept dropping my extensions.
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  4. It didn't start with Phoenix 0.1 by Draconix · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Technically, it started with Netscape, then moved on to Mozilla. At the end of 2001, some Mac OS X developers came along and decided to create a stand-alone browser for OS X based on Mozilla, without the extras like the HTML editor, IRC client, email client, etc. This browser was first released as Chimera in the beginning of 2002. Chimera steadily got more and more popular under OS X, and ended up being _the_ browser for OS X users until Apple finally released Safari. After the success of Chimera in its first few months, Phoenix was conceived as, effectively, an attempt to combine the simplicity of Chimera with the cross-platform capability and UI of the main Mozilla browser. In other words, Phoenix didn't just pop up out of the blue, it had an inspiration that (sadly) most people seem to have forgotten.

    Yes, I am using what Chimera became (Camino), and yes, perhaps I am a bit of a fanboy of it. It's an extremely solid browser, and despite its popularity waning due to Safari, it's still being developed, and I'm happy with its progress.

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    1. Re:It didn't start with Phoenix 0.1 by ahg · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Technically, it started with Netscape

      Technically, the original Netscape was a derivative of NCSA Mosaic

      Conclusion: Firefox started off as Mosaic, written by grad students... like all good software :-)

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