No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox 3 is full-featured, lightning fast, and an able foe for both the big-dog competitor Internet Explorer and competitors nipping at its heels. Firefox's killer add-ons remain strong, and the latest update makes version 3.5 about two times faster than version 3. However, competition is strong and it can no longer be said that Firefox is the fastest browser available. Several notable improvements in the latest revamp keep Firefox abreast of current browsing tech. Along with Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that renders Web applications faster on Firefox than ever before, there have also been improvements to the layout engine Gecko for faster page rendering. The new Private Browsing brings a feature to Firefox that competitors have had for a while: the capability to turn off cookie and history logs. Users also have more granular control over cookies, history, and bookmarks in version 3.5 via the redone Clear Recent History option under Tools. Geolocation courtesy of Google has been activated by default in Firefox, so that generic searches such as "city hall" will come closer to pegging the government offices nearest you. Web developers should be excited about expanded support for HTML5 local storage, downloadable fonts, and native support for OGG-formatted embedded video. ICC profiles, SVG transforms, CSS media queries, native JSON support, and Web worker threads also get lots of love from v3.5. There's no doubt that Firefox 3.5 is a must-have, but it's an update that's more about keeping the browser current rather than blazing new trails.

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• Tim Bennett: I have to say #Firefox 10 is really nice. #apple need to pull something decent out of the bag for the next release of #safari. #browsers
• Alaska : "The Green Lantern to my Spiderman... the Internet Explorer to my Firefox."
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• Zippo: @avalonmel yeah, Firefox has adopted Chromes retarded version numbering system. I HATE it. Big numbers should be big changes, not minor.
• Sacha Ahyra: The Latest Version of Firefox is so fast! :)
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• Ben Palmer: Why doesn't #Plesk9 work in Chrome? I guess i'll use my Firefox 4? no 5? sorry 6? hold on. Firefox 10?!!? How many updates?

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Very reliable web browser. The best I ever had. -    JVDORPE

Great on Windows & Linux; don't want explorer anymore. -    Jobe005

Enjoyable! Excellent! Better than IE8! -    Wezieworl

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Mozilla started in 1998 as an open source project from Netscape; after a few years, Firefox became popular. Here some highlights of the history of Mozilla.

March 31, 1998 - The Mozilla Project forms as an open source project at Netscape and releases source code
June 5, 2002 - Mozilla 1.0 released
July 2003 - Mozilla Foundation founded
February 2004 - Mozilla Europe founded
August 2004 - Mozilla Japan founded
November 9, 2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released
March 4th, 2005 - Mozilla China Foundation founded
August 2005 - Mozilla Foundation creates Mozilla Corporation
November 29, 2005 - Mozilla Firefox 1.5 released
October 24, 2006 - Mozilla Firefox 2.0 released
June 17, 2008 - Mozilla releases Firefox 3 and sets a Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours
June 30, 2009 - Firefox 3.5 released