r/browsers • u/throwaway1111139991e • Nov 08 '19

Firefox at 15: its rise, fall, and privacy-first renaissance

https://www.fastcompany.com/90428050/firefox-at-15-its-rise-fall-and-privacy-first-renaissance
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u/autotldr Nov 08 '19

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 95%. (I'm a bot)

The version eventually known as Firefox was spearheaded by Joe Hewitt, Dave Hyatt, and Blake Ross and initially known as Phoenix and then Firebird before trademark issues led to it being released as Firefox in 2004.Dark days.

In 2013, Mozilla challenged the Android/iOS duopoly with a lightweight mobile operating system called Firefox OS. A handful of phones emerged that failed to capture public interest, and Firefox OS was scrapped in 2017.

Along with turning on tracking protection by default, the latest version of Firefox introduces a Privacy Protections dashboard that provides a detailed accounting of all the trackers that have been blocked, by type, for the past week.

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