The dwindling market share forced the Mozilla Corporation to fire 70 employees in January 2020 and and additional 250 employees in August 2020.įirefox 80 with a default profile showing a Rockit Girl musicvideo on tv. That was reduced to a 8.61% desktop market share in August 2020 with a mere 4.26% overall market share thanks to a pathetic 0.48% share of the mobile web browser market. This particular issue was eventually fixed after being present in version after version for ages.įirefox enjoyed a 31% market share at the height of its glory in 2010. Changes between Firefox 10 and 11 made some JavaScript sites perform horrible to the point where having one tab open with a JS site would make the whole browser slow and useless. The Mozilla Application Suite was later re-branded to SeaMonkey in 2005.įirefox was a great browser for a while but then it started to go down-hill after version 4 was released.
That didn't work out because someone else happened to be using that name to market some obscure database program, so Firebird was again re-branded to Mozilla Firefox, a name that finally managed to stick, in February 2004. Phoenix was rebranded Firebird due to a trademark dispute. The Phoenix Web Browser was meant to be a slim, light and fast web browser, not a big application suite. They therefore launched two dedicated and focused products: The Phoenix Web Browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client. Mozilla felt that the Mozilla Application Suite had become a huge pile of bloat, which it was.
Mozilla rebranded their flavor of the Netscape Communicator as the Mozilla Application Suite. The Netscape Corporation released Netscape the source code and created the Mozilla Foundation in February 1998.
This browser grew to become the rather bloated Netscape Communicator web browser suite which was a web browser with a built-in e-mail client, Usenet news client, HTML editor, calendar and even a conference client. The Netscape Communications Corporation launched the Netscape web browser in 1994.
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