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 added Shervin Pishevar as Chief Application Officer and General Manager.

Posted 5/16/12 at 4:53pm
Mozilla added Melissa Shapiro as Director of Global PR. (4/1/07)

Posted 4/3/12 at 11:38am
Mozilla added Jishnu Menon as Data & Product Counsel. (8/1/11)

Posted 2/24/12 at 9:32am
Mozilla added Patrick Santana as Fellow (WebFWD). (9/1/11)

Posted 1/29/12 at 5:49pm
Mozilla added Jaisen Mathai as Fellow (WebFWD). (8/20/11)

Posted 12/30/11 at 11:31pm
Mozilla added Nick Nguyen as Director of Add-ons.

Posted 11/2/10 at 2:53pm
Mozilla added Gary Kovacs as CEO. (10/14/10)

Posted 10/14/10 at 9:29am
Mozilla added Paul Kim as VP Marketing. (10/10/05)

Posted 12/6/09 at 7:55pm
Mozilla added Dan Portillo as VP People Ops.

Posted 12/6/09 at 10:11am
Mozilla added Justin Fitzhugh as VP Engineering Ops.

Posted 12/6/09 at 10:11am
Mozilla added Chris Beard as Chief Marketing Officer.

Posted 12/6/09 at 10:11am
Mozilla added John Resig as Labs Engineer.

Posted 11/23/09 at 9:09am
Mozilla added Ellen Siminoff as Board Member.

Posted 2/6/09 at 4:31pm
Mozilla added Suneel Gupta as Director, Mozilla Labs.

Posted 2/5/09 at 12:55pm
Mozilla added Mike Shaver as VP Engineering.

Posted 1/15/09 at 10:07pm
Mozilla added Jay Sullivan as Vice President, Product.

Posted 10/7/08 at 11:11am