Mozilla Firefox was originally an experimental branch of Mozilla, founded by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. They think that the commercial requirements of the original sponsor Netscape and its developer-oriented features will reduce the usability of the browser [43]. In order to solve this problem, they began to build an independent browser based on Mozilla Suite, with the aim of replacing the complicated Mozilla Suite. On April 3rd, 23, Mozilla announced that they would transfer their development target from Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird [44].
the name of the p>Firefox project has been changed for many times. It was originally called Phoenix, but it was changed to Firebird because of its conflict with the name of Phoenix Technologies. However, this new name also conflicts with Firebird, another open source database system. The development community of Firebird requires that the project be identified or renamed with the full name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion. On February 9, 24, Mozilla Firebird was renamed Mozilla Firefox for short. Mozilla hopes that Firefox can be abbreviated as Fx or fx[45], but it is still often called FF(FireFox).
before Firefox version 1. was released on November 9, 24, it underwent several revisions to enhance its stability and security. Mozilla Foundation released version 1.5 on September 29th, 25 and Firefox 2 on October 24th, 26. Firefox 3 was released on June 17th, 28.