The project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt, and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised … See more

Firefox allowed for a sandbox security model to manage privileges accorded to JavaScript code, but that feature has since been deprecated. It … See more

The desktop version of Firefox is available and supports Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, while Firefox for Android is available for … See more

Firefox source code is free software, with most of it being released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0. This license permits … See more

Features of the desktop edition include tabbed browsing, full-screen mode, spell checking, incremental search, smart bookmarks, … See more

Firefox is a widely localized web browser. Mozilla uses the in-house Pontoon localization platform. The first official release in November 2004 was available in 24 different … See more

In March 2011, Mozilla presented plans to switch to the rapid release model, a faster 16-week development cycle, similar to Google Chrome. Ars Technica noted that this new cycle … See more