Finally, the long waited release of Firefox has arrived. Ben Goodger and the rest of the team at Mozilla HQ have compiled the 1.0 release and put it up for download on the Mozilla FTP servers.
as Ben posted on his weblog, its been a long journey for Firefox to get to this stage, various name and identity changes included.
This is the culmination of over two years worth of herculean work by a great team of people, all dedicated to making the best browser around.
I could not agree with Ben more there.
This day has come a lot later than any of us originally planned, but that’s the way software goes. I’ve learned a lot about a huge number of things in the process, have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of different people about their experiences with the software, etc. It’s been a long road but we’re finally here. No software is perfect, we did not fix every bug, implement every feature, but what we did do was create what we believe to be the best browser around. I want to thank you all again for the support over the past few years. In the not-too-distant future, I will be posting a technical postmortem of the 1.0 release process beginning February 2004, which may be of interest to the technical types. Now, for some beer, some sleep, and then onward to Firefox2!
Make sure you check out the start page after installing the release too! Seems Mozilla/Firefox and Google have teamed up - reminds me of back in the days of Nutscrape.. Err.. Netscape.
Quick! Go get it!
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David Kornahrens (November 12th, 2004, 7:47 am)
Firefox IS the standard for the web.
bkk (November 15th, 2004, 1:56 am)
glad to test with moxilla firefox1.0