Born from Netscape’s 1998 open sourcing of the code base behind its Netscape Communicator internet suite, Mozilla Firefox currently holds approximately 22.48% of the world market for internet browsers as of April 2009. Version 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004 after a series of name changes, and within a year close to 100 million downloads of the browser technology had occurred.

The following two years saw upgrades to version 1.5 in November 2005 and 2.0 in October 2006. Firefox’s feature set includes tabbed browsing, an array of extensions, themes and add-ons to enable more functionality within the browser, as well as a variety of security measures that help the browser compete with Internet Explorer for customers.

Milestones
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Mozilla — Mozilla sets a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours (7/2/08)
Posted 7/2/08 at 6:04pm
Received $300k in Angel funding. (2005)
Posted 3/27/08 at 2:10pm
Received $2M in Unattributed funding. (7/15/03)
Posted 3/27/08 at 2:10pm
Mike Schroepfer, Vice President, Engineering added.
Posted 5/13/08 at 12:15am
Scott MacGregor, Thunderbird Guru added.
Posted 9/9/08 at 11:30am
Christopher Blizzard, Evangelist added.
Posted 8/21/08 at 12:32pm
Bart Decrem, Head of Marketing, Business Affairs added.
Posted 6/9/08 at 2:33pm
Brendan Eich, CTO added.
Posted 6/5/08 at 7:48pm
Jay Sullivan, Vice President, Mobile added.
Posted 10/7/08 at 11:11am
Joi Ito, Board Member added.
Posted 4/10/08 at 10:52am
Aza Raskin, Head of User Experience added.
Posted 3/7/08 at 6:34am
John Lilly, CEO added.
Posted 2/20/08 at 5:30pm
Mitchell Baker, Chairman added.
Posted 2/20/08 at 5:30pm
Dave Hyatt, Co-Founder added.
Posted 11/20/07 at 4:09am
Blake Ross, Co-Founder added.
Posted 11/20/07 at 4:08am
Mike Shaver, VP Engineering added.
Posted 1/15/09 at 10:07pm
Suneel Gupta, Director, Mozilla Labs added.
Posted 2/5/09 at 12:55pm
Ellen Siminoff, Board Member added.
Posted 2/6/09 at 4:31pm