


The first executable version of the Phoenix 0.1 web browser was published on September 23, 2002. The Mozilla project Firefox, at that time still under the name Phoenix, was initiated by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch from the program package Mozilla Application Suite, which is based on the source code of the Netscape Communicator. According to StatCounter, Firefox was one of the three most widely used web browsers in July 2019, accounting for 8.82 percent of worldwide internet usage without mobile devices. Mozilla Firefox ( American-English pronunciation ), or Firefox for short, is a free web browser from the Mozilla project.

MPL-2.0, GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, Unix, iOS, FreeBSDĬ, C ++, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, Rust, XML User Interface Language Further meanings are listed under Firefox (disambiguation).
