The alternative to Internet Explorer developed under the Mozilla Foundation is celebrating five years of life. Firefox is an open source product that includes the development efforts of a community of programmers and over the years has managed to assert itself as an alternative, in fact, the IE from Microsoft that at the time that Firefox was released dominated about 95 percent of the market.
Today, Firefox has around 330 million users, which gives it a market share close to 25 percent. It's currently in version 3.5 and on the way to a renewal, the foundation will ensure faster than the last, narrowing the time intervals which have hitherto separate the various releases. This range was up to now about a year.
Chris Blizzard, Mozilla Corp., said the purpose of the anniversary that over the past five years the Foundation has focused on the following five years. "The Web is faster and no slower and modern browsers should be prepared to work in view of that fact."
Mozilla also highlights the major changes in the five years of existence of Firefox, with competition in the browser market to grow strongly, thanks to the entry of new players.
Some names to remember in this area are those of the Opera - as well as a mobile version of the product with the same name - or Google, which launched the Chrome. Very little media coverage but still effective in terms of membership of users. Oldest is the alternative to Apple via the Safari, which controls 4.4 percent of the market.
The birth of Firefox took place on November 9, 2004. Four days after being launched as one million users had downloaded.
Today, Firefox has around 330 million users, which gives it a market share close to 25 percent. It's currently in version 3.5 and on the way to a renewal, the foundation will ensure faster than the last, narrowing the time intervals which have hitherto separate the various releases. This range was up to now about a year.
Chris Blizzard, Mozilla Corp., said the purpose of the anniversary that over the past five years the Foundation has focused on the following five years. "The Web is faster and no slower and modern browsers should be prepared to work in view of that fact."
Mozilla also highlights the major changes in the five years of existence of Firefox, with competition in the browser market to grow strongly, thanks to the entry of new players.
Some names to remember in this area are those of the Opera - as well as a mobile version of the product with the same name - or Google, which launched the Chrome. Very little media coverage but still effective in terms of membership of users. Oldest is the alternative to Apple via the Safari, which controls 4.4 percent of the market.
The birth of Firefox took place on November 9, 2004. Four days after being launched as one million users had downloaded.