Celebrating Five Years of Firefox!


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Celebrating Five Years of Firefox!

You say it?s your birthday?Well it?s our birthday too!

Five years ago today, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 with belief that, as the most significant social and technological development of our time, the Internet is a public resource that must remain open and accessible to all. Within the first four days of launch, more than 1 million people had downloaded a brand new browsing experience.

In just five years, that number has swelled to over 330 million users worldwide; almost a quarter of Internet users worldwide choose Firefox. Today, Firefox ships in more than 70 languages and offers users more than 7,000 add-ons to help customize their browsing experience.

From your desktop to your mobile device, Mozilla is committed to building an open and participatory Internet. We?ve come so far in the past five years and we?re incredibly excited about the next five. For a more comprehensive look at where we?ve been and where we?re headed, check out Chris Blizzard?s excellent post on hacks.mozilla.org.

To celebrate this milestone, Mozilla communities are hosting parties all over the globe in a special campaign called ?Light the World with Firefox? ? shining the Firefox logo from Tokyo to Rome, from Paris to San Francisco, and more. For full details on parties in your area or to check out other ways to join in the celebration, head to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/.

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I share a birthday with Firefox?

Fitting since I also use it as well :D

it took them 5 years to reach v3.6

in the otherhand chrome after 4 year would be v10 :wacko:

It's taken us 9 to reach Neowin 6 (which isn't released yet). ;)

The first time I used Firefox was late-2005. I believe the version at that time was 1.5, assuming my memory is correct. I remember sticking with it and not looking back since then. I can't even remember the last time I used Internet Explorer, or any other browser, as my main browser.

And ironically enough, I'm writing this post from Opera 10. Kinda funny that I come across this thread while testing another browser for the first time in a long time. :p

Alas, happy birthday Firefox!

I've used it since the .x beta days. What's interesting is that I started using it first on Linux, then I installed it on my University account (Win NT) because of the tabs. Never used another browser as much as I use Firefox. Firefox (Phoenix) never let me down. Congratulations!

it took them 5 years to reach v3.6

pfft. foobar has been around since 2002 hasn't even reached version 1 yet. and it's far superior to WMP12 or itunes 9. :p

and i love firefox. can't see myself using another browser anytime soon. :D

Happy Birthday Firefox! :cake:

I've used it since the beginning when it was still Phoenix. Only not too long ago, I switched to Opera when 9.5 came out.

Interestingly, I'm currently back again on Firefox 3.5.5, since Opera 10 has problems running properly with Qt 4.5.3 :pinch:

After I had to spend some time getting all the plug-ins installed, it's quite ok even.

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