Thankfully, Mozilla announced that it will support Firefox extensions on both Manifest v2 and v3. However, the fact that 4 percent of today's internet users equals to about 10 percent back in 2008 (maybe even more, it is impossible to get these numbers entirely accurate) should also be taken into account.įrom January 2023, Google will no longer support extensions that use Manifest v2 and most Chromium-based browsers will follow. Sadly, its market share dropped from about 20 percent to roughly 4 percent since 2008.

No matter if Mozilla Firefox is 20 years old or just 18, it remains one of the more popular browsers available on all major platforms. Although Mozilla prefers to abbreviate the browser's name as Fx or fx, it is often referred to as FF. In early November of 2004, Firefox 1.0 arrived and many consider this to be the browser's birth date. However, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox on February 4, 2004. In 2003, Phoenix turned into Firebird, due to a trademark claim from Phoenix Technologies. While this can be considered the direct ancestor of today' Firefox, the browser had to go through a few name changes.

On September 23, 2002, the first version of this piece of code arrived as Phoenix. At the end of the 1990s, the Mozilla project spawned an experimental branch intending to create a standalone browser that would replace the Mozilla Suite.

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