Five Years of Firefox: A Retrospective
Linked by Kroc Camen on Mon 9th Nov 2009 14:20 UTC
Editorial Hands up if you use Firefox. Have used it? Know about it? Heard of it? 'Sites up and down the World Wide Web today will be celebrating five years of Firefox. When I sat down to write this I worried about having to list the history of its features and landmark events and the news of the past five years. Other sites will be comprehensively doing that, there is nothing I can add to that list that Google can't surmise. Instead I will be telling you what Google does not know, my story of Firefox and what Firefox has meant to all of us.
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RE: A little late to the party
by phoenix on Mon 9th Nov 2009 18:26 UTC in reply to "A little late to the party"
phoenix
Member since:
2005-07-11

It might be more interesting to get some feedback from someone who had used it before it was called firefox, and/or before version 0.9.


I used it when it was called Firebird, then Phoenix, then Firefox, when it was pre-0.8. But, I couldn't tell you anything about it, other than it worked better than IE. ;) But it did replace IE and Opera 4.x (loved Opera 3.x, but couldn't get used to all the changes in 4+) on my Windows stations.

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SnowBuddha Member since:
2009-04-17

It was Phoenix first, and then Firebird.
Those were the good old days, when it was fresh and new and I finally got to dump slow Mozilla. Now Firefox is the old slow one, and Google Chrome is the fresh new one... but ah, the memories!

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SnowBuddha Member since:
2009-04-17

Double post, anyone?

Edited 2009-11-12 23:12 UTC

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