Firefox has just broken 500,000,000 downloads mark. A huge milestone for the Mozilla Foundation and they are celebrating by earning 500 million grains of donated rice to feed 25,000 people. Nice way to celebrate ain’t it?
If you want to participate just head over to FreeRice and play a simple vocabulary game. The ads you’ll be seeing will help pay for the rice to people in need. Every question that you answer correctly means 20 more grains of rice for the UN World Food Program.On the note of Firefox, let’s take a look at the project’s history:
| Key: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Old version | Current version | Pre-release version | Future version |
| Browser Name | Gecko version | Version | Codename | Release date | Significant changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | 1.2 | 0.1 | Pescadero | September 23, 2002 | First release; customizable toolbar, quicksearch. |
| 0.2 | Santa Cruz | October 1, 2002 | Sidebar, extension management. | ||
| 0.3 | Lucia | October 14, 2002 | Image blocking, pop-up blocking whitelist, tabbed browsing. | ||
| 1.3 | 0.4 | Oceano | October 19, 2002 | Themes, pop-up blocking improvements, toolbar customization. | |
| 0.5 | Naples | December 7, 2002 | Multiple homepages, sidebar and accessibility improvements, history | ||
| Mozilla Firebird | 1.5 | 0.6 | Glendale | May 17, 2003 | New default theme (Qute), bookmark and privacy improvements, smooth scrolling, automatic image resizing. |
| 0.7 | Indio | October 15, 2003 | Automatic scrolling, password manager, preferences panel improvements. | ||
| Mozilla Firefox | 1.6 | 0.8 | Royal Oak | February 9, 2004 | Windows installer, offline working, bookmarks and download manager improvements, rebranded with new logo. |
| 1.7 | 0.9 | One Tree Hill | June 15, 2004 | New default theme (Winstripe), comprehensive data migration, new extension/theme manager, reduced download size, new help system, Linux installer, mail icon (Windows only). |
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| 1.0 | Phoenix | November 9, 2004 | Official version 1.0 release. Official localized builds. Added new features such as RSS/Atom feed support, find toolbar, plugin finder. Reached its end of life on April 13, 2006 with the release of version 1.0.8.[17] (support for older versions of Firefox typically ends six months after a new major version is available). |
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| 1.8 | 1.5 | Deer Park | November 29, 2005 | Official version 1.5 release. Official localized builds. Added support for SVG and canvas, UI adjustments and improvements in JavaScript 1.5 and CSS 2/3. Reached its end of life on May 30, 2007 with the release of Firefox 1.5.0.12. |
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| Mozilla Firefox 2 | 1.8.1 | 2.0 | Bon Echo | October 24, 2006 | Official version 2.0 release. Official localized builds. Added new features such as session restoration after a browser crash, search suggestion for Google and Yahoo!, new search plugin manager and add-on manager, web feed previewing, bookmark microsummaries and anti-phishing protection. Winstripe theme refresh. Included support for JavaScript 1.7. |
| 2.0.0.12 | February 7, 2008 | Current stable version. Stability and security fixes. | |||
| Mozilla Firefox 3 | 1.9 | 3.0b3 | Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 | February 12, 2008 | Cairo used as a graphics backend. Cocoa Widgets included in OS X builds. API’s implemented from WHATWG specs. Changes to how DOM events are dispatched, how HTML object elements are loaded, and how web pages are painted. New SVG elements and filters, and improved SVG specification compliance. Acid2 test compliant. New UI improvements, including default themes for different operating systems and new download manager. Windows 95, 98, ME and Mac OS X v10.2 no longer supported. Addons.mozilla.org integration in the Add-ons window. |
| 3.0 | Gran Paradiso | ||||
| Mozilla Firefox 4 | 2.0 | 4.0 |
While were still waiting for the next version of Firefox, you can download the latest stable and beta version at getfirefox.
Written by sylv3rblade on February 22, 2008 at 11:37 pm. Follow responses to this entry via the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Tagged with: Firefox, Free Software, Windows
Tagged with: Firefox, Free Software, Windows
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