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Early description of what cookies are in the Preferences window of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3. This description was soon dropped in later versions. Firefox 1.0, the first release targeted for the general public. Due to continuing pressure from the Firebird community, [14] on February 9, 2004, the project was renamed again to Mozilla Firefox. [15]
In early May 2010, Mozilla's plans for Firefox 4.0 were officially detailed through a blog post by Mike Beltzner, Firefox director. [ 11 ] On May 25, 2011, the Firefox release manager wrote in an email "Firefox 5 will be the security update for Firefox 4," confirming Firefox 4 had entered its " end of life " phase where Mozilla will no longer ...
Firefox 7 was released on September 27, 2011, [20] and uses as much as 50% less RAM than Firefox 4 as a result of the MemShrink project to reduce Firefox memory usage. [21] [22] [23] Firefox 7.0.1 was released a few days later to fix a rare, but serious, issue with add-ons not being detected by the browser. [24]
However, Firefox 3.5.12 was released on September 7, 2010 [41] and Mozilla continued shipping incremental stability and security fixes up to build 3.5.19, released on April 28, 2011. [42] With the release of Firefox 3.6.18, Mozilla issued an update to move remaining Firefox 3.5 users to the new browser, [43] finally ending support for 3.5.
When PC Magazine in 2006 compared memory usage of Firefox 2, Opera 9, and Internet Explorer 7, they found that Firefox used approximately as much memory as each of the other two browsers. [309] In 2006, Softpedia noted that Firefox 1.5 took longer to start up than other browsers, [310] which was confirmed by further speed tests. [311]
• Restore your browser's default settings in Firefox • Restore your browser's default settings in Chrome. While Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL products, it's no longer supported by Microsoft and can't be updated. Because of this, we recommend you download a supported browser for a more reliable and secure experience.
This, combined with the community marketing effort named "Spread Firefox", drew more and more users away from Mozilla since late 2004, when Firefox 1.0 was released. There were no official releases of the Mozilla Suite beyond version 1.7.13. As of 2008, Mozilla Suite usage share was approximately 0.1%.
The 1.7.5 version number was selected to match the internal Gecko version number of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. Note (3): Mozilla 1.7.9 was cancelled. It was intended that Mozilla 1.7.9 would be released shortly after Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5. However, regressions were found in the 1.0.5 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird ...