1990s
Krikorian says Firefox was created to push back against Microsoft's dominance of the web in the 1990s.
“Firefox was effectively created as a way to push back against the monopolization of the web by Microsoft in the nineties.”
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Firefox
5 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2001
Eich says Firefox began in 2001 as a small project within Netscape called Mozilla/browser, later known as Phoenix.
“Firefox was originally Mozilla slash browser in 2001. It was just a small pirate ship within Netscape.”
2003
Eich says he and Dave Hyatt wrote a 2003 Mozilla roadmap proposing separate single-purpose apps, leading to Firefox and Thunderbird.
“Dave Hyatt and I wrote the roadmap update for Mozilla in 2003 that said, let's make one app do one thing well.”
2008
When Chrome launched in 2008, Internet Explorer had almost 70% of the browser market and Firefox had most of the rest.
“When Chrome launched in 2008, Internet Explorer had almost 70% market share of browsers, and Firefox had most of the rest.”
2026
Praveen Akkiraju says Mozilla found 271 bugs in the latest Firefox using the model he calls MITOS, with only about three being high-severity CVEs.
“They found 271 bugs, uh, using MITOS, which is kind of amazing.”
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