Mozilla’s Firefox continues to gain momentum in the web browser wars, steadily eating away at Internet Explorer’s market share. The browser, which has garnered high praise from both users and developers alike, carries with it a cult-like following. Some users of the Mozilla application tend to be very passionate about their browser of choice, and this is perhaps most evident when looking at things like this Firefox crop circle.
Where It Began
Long before this runaway train of adoration left the station, there was the release of Phoenix v0.1 in September 2002.
The Phoenix browser, which would eventually become known as Firefox in later releases, started out looking like a stripped down version of the browser we know today.
Although lacking many of the features that make Firefox so popular today, the initial release of Phoenix did contain tabbed browsing and a download manager which were far from commonplace in browsers at that time. As later versions of Phoenix were made available to beta testers, the enhancements began to come in bunches. By the time Phoenix v0.3 was released in mid-October of ‘02, the browser already contained support for extensions, a sidebar, an integrated search bar, and more.
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