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Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser, first released as Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004. Starting with version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks.
2010 Lynx Chrome Opera IE Camino SeaMonkey Firefox Safari Maxthon Lunascape NetSurf; Jan 4.0 3.6 Feb Mar 10.50 Apr 6.1 2.5 [3]: May 5.0 Jun 4.1, 5.0 Jul 10.60 6.2
The minimum OS then increased to Mac OS X 10.2 in Firefox 1.5 and 10.4 in Firefox 3. [188] [189] Firefox 4 dropped support for Mac OS X 10.4 and PowerPC Macs, and Firefox 17 dropped support for Mac OS X 10.5 entirely. [190] [191] The system requirements were left unchanged until 2016, when Firefox 49 dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6–10.8.
The original Tab Mix Plus ceased to be compatible with Firefox upon the release of Firefox 57 Quantum, due to the switch to the WebExtensions interface. A complete rewrite of the extension under development build has been released, called Tab Mix WebExtension, with limited features [ 8 ] and not yet compatible with Quantum.
On Windows and other platforms, Gecko depends on proprietary compilers. [30] After Gecko 2.0, the version number was bumped to 5.0 to match Firefox 5, and from then on has been kept in sync with the major version number for both Firefox and Thunderbird, [31] to reflect the fact that it is no longer a separate component. [32]
Initially introduced as an option in a beta release and introduced in Brendan Eich's blog on August 23, 2008, [12] the compiler became part of the mainline release as part of SpiderMonkey in Firefox 3.5, providing "performance improvements ranging between 20 and 40 times faster" than the baseline interpreter in Firefox 3.
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.
Firefox for Maemo Beta 5, released in 2009, was the first version to have the official Firefox branding, with the Firefox name and logo. [ 17 ] Fennec uses the Gecko engine ; for example, version 1.0 used the same engine as Firefox 3.6 , and the following release, 4.0, shared core code with Firefox 4.0 .