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was the November 9, 2004 when the Mozilla Foundation released version 1.0 of the Firefox browser. The community open source that follows the development of open source browser has celebrated the anniversary with celebrations all over the world.
The interface of the latest stable versions of Firefox is not so different from the first version: the water under the bridge, however, has passed. The product of the "Foundation" is in fact growing in terms of both functionality and "market share" (according to NetApplications browser today has about 24% market share worldwide).
The strength of Firefox is certainly the great adaptability of the product with the support of the extensions on which it is invested from the start.
With the first version of the program has undergone debuted on automatic mechanism for blocking pop-ups, tabbed browsing ("tabs"), the search box integrated directly into the toolbar.
After one year, in 2005, was launched Firefox 1.5: the most important innovation was introduced and the system auto-update feature that allows you to quickly get rid of personal data contained in the cache.
The following year he added Mozilla - Firefox 2.0 - the anti-phishing features, session restore, spell checking and a system for customizing the interface.
Firefox 3.0 (June 2008) was enriched with the new address bar "intelligent" to a mechanism for immediate identification of the website, a review of the window of "bookmarks".
The month of June 2009 saw the arrival of Firefox 3.5, the latest stable version, which provides a mechanism for browsing the web without leaving traces that are on your system and HTML5 support.
From that November 9 was five years ago, the Mozilla Foundation has released several versions of Firefox together with the variant for mobile devices ("Fennec") based on Windows Mobile and Maemo. Firefox and now can count on the contribution of more than 1,000 volunteers who are committed to improving the project.
As for the future, continuing the development of Firefox 3.6 (coupling the "beta 1") and Firefox 4.0. Firefox 3.6 will be more powerful, not only for what concerns the rendering of web pages. The software could reach 40% gain in performance compared to the current version 3.5.x: an excellent opportunity to show he had regained ground against Chrome and Safari.
Firefox 3.6 should contain the best new JavaScript engine "TraceMonkey", optimizations designed to make the product more stable, some work on the recovery mechanism of the work session and the management style sheets (CSS). The adjustment interface instead of Windows 7 should be undertaken only with the release of version 3.7.
Firefox 4.0 could make his debut, however, by the end of 2010. It will be designed to respond effectively to the movement "multi-touch made with the fingers on touch screens, will allow you to synchronize bookmarks and settings of the program with Weave extension that aims to move data in-the-cloud" storage on remote servers and making them accessible from any location. The new "major release" of Firefox should also incorporate "Jetpack", a mechanism that allows you to create extensions for the browser simply by using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The user interface will be revolutionized with the separation of the same web content using at least two separate processes.
