Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is  developed , and , coordinated by . Firefox uses the to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated .

The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the by , . They believed the commercial requirements of sponsorship and developer-compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.To combat what they saw as the , they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla to Firefox and The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark problems with . The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the 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,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.

As of October 2012, Firefox has approximately 20% to 24% of worldwide, making it the second or third most widely used web browser, according to different sources. According to Mozilla, Firefox counts with over 450 million users around the world. The browser has had particular success in , and, where it is the most popular browser with 65%, 47% and 47%of the market share, respectively.

On October 5, 2012, Mozilla released the  interface version of Firefox, included in the Nightly 18 build, to be used in On October 9, Mozilla released Firefox 16 only to have it removed from its website a day later because of a serious security issue. Mozilla recommended users downgrade to Firefox 15.0.1 while they worked to fix the issue.^[he vulnerability was fixed the following day (October 11) with the release of Firefox 16.0.1.^[28]

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