Mozilla Firefox: Presentation

( codename : Firefox )

• 9^th of February 2004
  Mozilla Firefox 0.8 (Royal Oak): Windows Installer, working offline, better download management and bookmarks, new logo
  
  
• 15^th of June 2004
  Mozilla Firefow 0.9 (One Tree Hill): New theme (Winstripe), size reduction, new help system, email icon (Windows only), new themes and extensions management
  
  
• 29^th of June 2004
  Mozilla Firefow 0.9.1: stability update, theme update
  
  
• 8^th of July 2004
  Mozilla Firefow 0.9.2 for Windows: security update
  
  
• 4^th of August 2004
  Mozilla Firefow 0.9.3: Security update
  
  
• 14^th of September 2004
  Mozilla Firefow 0.10.0 or 1.0 Preview Release (Greenlane): a lot of bugs resulting from translations, RSS / Atom Flux support, search bar, plug-ins search
  
  
• 1^st of October 2004
  Mozilla Firefow 0.10.1: security update
  
  
• 27^th of October 2004
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0 RC1 (Mission Bay): a lot of updates
  
  
• 3^rd of November 2004
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0 RC2 (Whangamata): a lot of updates

• 9^th of November 2004
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (Phoenix): First official and stable version, official translations
  
  
• 24^th of February 2005
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 (Rose and Crown): security update / stability
  
  
• 20^th of March 2005
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2: security / stability update
  
  
• 15^th of April 2005
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3: security update, updated installer
  
  
• 11^th of May 2005
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4: security update, better DHTML module
  
  
• 12^th of July 2005
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5: security / stability update
  
  
• 19^th of July 2005
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6: security / stability update
  
  
• 20^th of September
  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7: security / stability update, final stable version to date

• Since Firefox 1.0, its taken off

To realise the success of the free Firefox navigator you just need to follow its evolution in the number of downloads since its release on the 9^th of November 2004. The number of downloads doesn’t properly indicate the number of users, but its rise is certainly noticeable and it has a lot of people talking about it.

Some important dates:

18^th of October 2004: 5 million

• 3^rd of December 2004: 8 million
  
• 12^th of December 2004: 10 million
• 1^st of May 2005: 50 million (see image below)
• 19^th of October 2005: 100 million

As you can see, the project has not stopped progressing with each version bringing new features or error corrections. The constant improvements allow Firefox to not just find its public among new comers to the internet but also in the form of users switching from other web browsers, particularly those from Internet Explorer, who have seen how powerful and secure it has been made by its always conscious designers.

Just a story, at the release of version 1.0, the Mozilla foundation was hoping to reach 10 million downloads in 100 days, as it turns out, 33 days would have been sufficient. The bet was made, and today, less then a year after its release, there have been over 100 million downloads. It’s a real success.