Eons ago all we had was the Mosaic we browser (not strictly true, but that was the big one).
No matter, Netscape came to the rescue with many of the Mosaic team on board, added the blink tag, and started charging for essentially the same thing.
Somewhere along the line Microsoft woke up to the internet and started knocking out their own Internet Explorer for free, eventually bundling it with the OS and taking 95% market share.
A lot of people took issue with this, and it formed the core of the anti-trust lawsuit that shaped Microsoft to this day.
I was suspicious of Microsoft abusing their powers back then, but I could see the logic in using the same rendering engine in the browser for the OS itself, I quite liked IE3 (the proprietary extensions and lack of standards didn’t concern me back then), and Netscape was large and wasn’t yet free.
After a while my Main browser became IE. It worked well for me. Netscape faded away.
Somewhere later along the line Netscape transformed into FireFox in an attempt to right some of the wrongs that Netscape had come to be known for (primarily bloat) and to claw back some of the gains made by Internet Explorer which would see it reach 95% market share.
It worked to a large extent. FireFox was more standards compliant, lighter and faster than IE, and gradually millions of people started to switch.
But as time went on FireFox also started to suffer from bloat. Microsoft had all but lost interest with IE failing to make any significant updates for years. And then there was Chrome.
Google launched its own web browser that was sleek and the world started to take notice. Chrome was to eventually take the crown from a neglected IE, and a struggling FireFox.
Microsoft tried to fight back with later versions of IE, and subsequently Edge (which has become my primary browser, with Chrome always on standby), while FireFox and others like Opera carved out more of a niche market and held onto their respective diehards.
But now it appears the Mozilla Foundation has been hard at work reworking FireFox to correct its ills and prepare it for a bright new future. But with the likes of Edge and Chrome providing a very good gateway to the internet, is there still a place for FireFox on my desktop.
I have some good memories of FireFox being a good browser, and am interested in taking a look out of curiosity, but I’m not sure this is enough to spur me into action.
Has anyone out there used the new release? I’d be interested to know what you think.
If I do give it a try, I’ll be sure to let you all know what I think.
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I’ve tried Firefox recently and sadly did not find it was as good and certainly not better then Chrome, Edge, or even Opera. I think Firefox has alienated a ton of users who just moved on to Chrome. Is there any reason to switch back? Probably not.