įirefox usage share grew to a peak of 32.21% in November 2009, with Firefox 3.5 overtaking Internet Explorer 7, although not all versions of Internet Explorer as a whole, its usage then declined in competition with Google Chrome. Firefox is the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator, as the Mozilla community was created by Netscape in 1998 before their acquisition by AOL. Firefox was released on November 9, 2004, and challenged Internet Explorer's dominance with 60 million downloads within nine months. During its beta phase, Firefox proved to be popular with its testers and was praised for its speed, security, and add-ons compared to Microsoft's then-dominant Internet Explorer 6. įirefox was created in 2002 under the code name "Phoenix" by the Mozilla community members who desired a standalone browser, rather than the Mozilla Application Suite bundle. An optimized version of Firefox is also available on the Amazon Fire TV, as one of the two main browsers available with Amazon's Silk Browser. However, the iOS version uses the WebKit layout engine instead of Gecko due to platform requirements, as with all other iOS web browsers.
Firefox is also available for Android and iOS. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos, and Solaris Unix. Firefox is available for Windows 7 and later versions, macOS, and Linux. In 2017, Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name Quantum to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface. Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.
The team will be listening for feedback on how to improve the Firefox brand.Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Of course, this whole process asked for the involvement of the community from the start, and Mozilla realizes the new branding isn't perfect yet. With the new branding, Mozilla hopes to make it easier to take the Firefox brand further, with changes to the color palette making it easier to adapt the brand to new products, for example. These include an encrypted file-sharing service and a password manager, and Mozilla says that's just the beginning of the Firefox family. Mozilla felt the need to evolve the Firefox brand due to the increased scope of the services and products it offers.
The team is also emphasizing accessibility, adopting "accessible color and type standards to make the brand open to everyone, everywhere".
Mozilla says the update also includes a new color palette, a new shape, and a modern typeface.
There's more than new icons in the new Firefox brand, too. The new branding comes almost a year after Firefox began asking its users to help the organization choose the direction to take with its design. Today, Mozilla officially announced its new family of logos for Firefox apps and services, which includes for the first time a parent logo for the entire family of products.