History of Web Browsers - Netscape Navigator, Mosaic, Netscape Communicator, History of Firefox, Timeline of Web Browsers (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Netscape Navigator, Mosaic, Netscape Communicator, History of Firefox, Timeline of web browsers, History of the Opera web browser, Firefox 3, History of Internet Explorer, Opera 10, Firefox 3.5, History of the web browser, Firefox 3.6, WorldWideWeb, Firefox 2. Excerpt: The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005. Version 2.0 was released on October 24, 2006. Firefox 3.0 was released on June 17, 2008, with Version 3.5 and Version 3.6 released on June 30, 2009 and January 21, 2010 respectively. Version 4.0 was released on March 22, 2011 and Version 5.0, the current version, was released on June 21, 2011. Phoenix 0.1, the first official release Firefox 1.0, the first release targeted for general publicHyatt, Ross, Hewitt and Chanial's browser was created to combat the perceived software bloat of the Mozilla Suite (codenamed, internally referred to, and continued by the community as SeaMonkey), which integrated features such as IRC, mail and news, and WYSIWYG HTML editing into one software suite. Firefox retains the cross-platform nature of the original Mozilla browser, using the XUL user interface markup language. The use of XUL makes it possible to extend the browser's capabilities through the use of extensions and themes. The development and installation processes of these add-ons raised security concerns, and with the release of Firefox 0.9, the Mozilla Foundation opened a Mozilla Update website containing "approved" themes and extensions. The use of XUL sets Firefox apart from other browsers, including other projects based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and most other browsers, which use interfaces native to their respective platforms (Galeon and Ep...