It’s been 5 years since Mozilla released its Firefox 1.0, the open source web browser has since then achieved amazing growth and community involvement from coders and developers around the globe.
Firefox has succeed to topple Microsoft’s IE that was grappling with security and vulnerability issues. Microsoft’s IE 6 was a big disaster when it launched with huge security bugs and issues, it was a nightmare for users using IE which constantly crashed. One of the prime reasons of exponential growth and usership for Firefox was
Microsoft’s lack of innovation and product development for IE.
Firefox now dominates 24.07% of the web browser market stealing share from Microsoft’s monopoly position in the last 5 years. Microsoft share now stands at 64.64% from a high of 100%.
To celebrate its 5 th birthday, its having loads of contests, you can post a photo or video of your project to Flickr with the tag ‘Firefox5’. The best video and photos will be rewarded with a cool Firefox swag.
You can also create a poster design around Firefox’s 5 th Birthday , that will help spread the word about Firefox and the community.
Thank you Firefox for bringing us a powerful web browser and Thank GOD I don’t have to ever go back to browsing with IE.
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No way! I didnt know firefox was that old already!
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me too! I started using Firefox a year back and I had really good experience with it, its’ browsing speed is faster than IE.
Regards,
Lee
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Heheheheh! I bet you can not remember Netscape Navigator either! That was the original favourite browser that got deposed by IE and the code of which was used to establish FireFox upon. Now that is going back a good ten years!
Amazing achievment by the Firefox team because when it arrived IE and MS had been successful in killing all its competitors and in particular Netscape. FF has survived all threats – even from the friend and foe Chrome – and flying high!
the team work of firfox making it best.. keep working
It’s really amazing to complete five years between one of the top players like Microsoft IE, I personally think that the FireFox is really a wonderful Browsers, especially for its Addons!
I am glad to hear it.Five years is a remarkable anniversary for the Firefox.Successes to them!
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Congrats to Firefox!
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Firefox is most popular browser nowadays. It’s really good news five yrs of firefox and release Firefox5.
Firefox rocks , I am a Firefox addict …KILL IE
Its growth is really amazing because for me, it’s the best browser. Happy 5th year Firefox! Cheers!
I like firefox too but a lot of the sites i go to play havoc with firefox so i use the worldbrowser mostly now,Google Chrome did my head in .
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Hooray for Firefox! The best browser ever!
yeah!!! no one can beat firefox
5 years now?! Wow, that makes ME feel older! But yes, I cant remember the time without Firefox…Big up!
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happy 5th anniversary to firefox. right now i am always using it with many seo plugins.
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Firefox is by far the most popular browser today and long it may continue.I will certainly download the latest version.
Firfox has changed the way of browsing the world of internet.The availability of add-ons and extensions make it further strong.
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I’ve been using Firefox for quite some times and I love this browser because it’s faster than IE, I’m not sure how others experience the speed, but from my experience it’s faster than other browser.
I’m going to take a look on the contest, thanks for shouting it ZK! 🙂
Regards,
Lee
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thanks for sharing this information i prefer Firefox for browsing.it is incredible browser.now it changes the way of browsing.great.Firefox rocks..
FireFox rocks , I can’t surf the web with any other browser
It truly rocks, especially when it comes to browsing the net, visiting so many websites like the forums which require log in details as the password option of the FF works great over the net compared with the rest of the main browsing applications.
Started using Firefox since ver 1.0. It’s amazingly that Firefox is just a five year old kid while IE may turn 15 or 16 years old.
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I must agree about its addons, like WP plugins it just keeps getting better. 😉
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Love firefox…by far the fastest and most open UI of the browsers. Happy Birthday.
Thanks for sharing this information I prefer Firefox for browsing compare to Internet explorer. It is incredible browser
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i am using Firefox since it was come into the light and i think its faster ,secure and user friendly as well.
I just love this new version.
I have been using firefox for more than 3 years instead of IE in my PC. And so far, I am very satisfied. For 5 years stand up, I hope FF is getting better than before.
Im a loyal fan of Firefox and have never looked back. I like the way it loads the page nice and fast.
Yes, there is amazing growth in Firefox. I only use Firefox since 2 years. Really it rocks. No one can beat it.
Firefox is my absolute favorit webbrowser!
But this may change in the future! Does anybody knows the Flock User (it´s compatible to firefox, but designed for Social Media integration and Blogging), it has some buggs at the moment, but I hope they will be fixed soon. I have tried it and it is very useful forall using blogging or social media to make money (or to have some fun).
Great post!
I switched over to FireFox in 2005 and have not looked back since. It is gratifyinf that FF has cornered 25% of the market, but I feel that at 65% IE is still waaaay over-represented, and that their % marketshare will continue sliding. If IE didn’t come as bundled software I do feel that their figures would have been a lot worse a long time ago already!
FireFox gives real competition with IE. When I started using Firefox, IE just came out of my mind and never came back
I use firefox as my primary browser, but lately i have been trying to use features of certain web sites that require internet explorer.
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Not usually but just make sure it’s compatible with 3.0.8 because some of those themes are old and won’t work. There’s usually a description of what they’ve updated on their new themes.
Hey.. congrats..!! Being by 5 years old… firefox already and almost covered many essential areas on the webbing users. These are the successful and victorious performing years of firefox and more to this is still its going ahead with technologies..!!
firefox is the best browser it is fast . it is the best, thanks for sharing
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Select the pull down menu from the top called File, and near the bottom you will see the option “Work Offline”. Un-check this and you should be back in business.
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Yeah, they’re the best, fast. I always use it and I always keep them up to date.
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Firefox is the best for me. No one else.
Wow, I didn’t know that Firefox has only been around for about 5 years! I thought it was much older than that. When I think about it, I adopted the use of Firefox from the beginning and didn’t even know it.
Many people recommend me Chrome or Opera but I still can’t stop using good old Firefox. I know that every web browser has some good and some bad features but it is for me just the most comfortable to use Firefox. All those plugins and add-ons makes it just the best browser for me.
thanks for your information!!
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This is my first time here and I really enjoyed your site, great work!
Congrats. Started using a year ago and have not switched back since!
The only reason IE is used by so many people is laziness, most computer users use PC’s and they all have IE as their default browser, when all they have to do is take 60 seconds and install the FOX..
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I like firefox too but a lot of the sites i go to play havoc with firefox so i use the worldbrowser mostly now!!
now i am using Firefox, it is very convinient to use. I think it is just the best one in world.
i am an honest fans of Firefox. It’s functions are really very significant.
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I would have to admit that Firefox is the best explorer that i have used. firefox is not only convenient to use but have very significant functions. it’s great!
I love firefox, but find it kinda buggy at times…. often it says (not responding).
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