In 2002, Blake Ross, a developer of the Phoenix browser, made a post on the Mozillazine forum looking for a name for a new project.
Then, on 9 November 2004, the BBC Reported that "Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a serious rival with the just-released Firefox 1.0 browser."
Soon after, fans of the software banded together to raise money to pay for an ad in the New York Times announcing that version 1.0 of the browser was available.
"Tired of your browser? You are not alone…."
Firefox was created by the Mozilla Foundation, which was started by the former maker of the Netscape browser in 1998… Previous applications had the same basic technology, called Phoenix and Firebird. Since then the software has been steadily gaining positive reviews, mainly due to the large number of security issues that appeared in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Internet monitoring company WebSideStory recorded the increasing number of people using the Firefox browser and reported that it is responsible for the gradual suffocation of IE.
Firefox proves to be very popular at the time because it has far fewer security holes compared to Internet Explorer and has some innovations that Microsoft's program lacks. For example, Firefox allowed tabs so that users could switch between them very easily
Firefox celebrated its 20th anniversary with a special video touting new and upcoming features like tab previews, marking in PDFs, and tab grouping.
