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How much do you know about the history of your Web browser and how it became what it is today?
Let’ s take a close look at the history of Web browsers along with the evolution of the Firefox!
CERN
1989
- The number of
network hosts
reaches 100
thousand
Tim Berners-Lee
proposes the original
technology that later
developed into the
World Wide Web
The world’ s first web
browser was called the
“WorldWideWeb.”
1990
You can experience the second bowser
in the world “Line Mode
Browser ” through a simulator.
Release
WorldWideWeb
1991
- HTTP/0.9
The world’ s first Web
site using HTML, HTTP,
and a URL
Rewrite part of
it as a reusable
C Language library.
Release
Line Mode Browser
Simulator: http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/Terms.html
It’ s a distant
relative of the
Firefox!
1992
- Number of network
hosts reaches
one million
- Japan’s first Web
site was published
libwww
NCSA
1993
- Mosaic flourishes
the market.
- 2M downloads in
one year
1994
- W3C is founded
- Netscape Navigator
flourishes market
- Yahoo! starts
services
1995
- Java is born
- Internet users
show sudden
increase
1998
- IE rapidly gains share
- CSS2 recommendation
- XML 1.0
recommendation
- DOM1
recommendation
- ECMAScript 2nd
2000
- The browser war
comes to a virtual
end
2001
- Section 508
Amendment to the
Rehabilitation Act of
1973 in effect
- Broadband services
diffuse in Japan
2002
Provides License
Release
Netscape Navigator 1.0
Internet Explorer 1.0
We were in competition
Technology like SSL(encrypted
Name changed due to
claims by NCSA
Netscape Navigator 2.0
Opera is as old as Netscape
technology we hear
and IE!
existed at this time.
Mail and Composer
are integrated
3.0
Improvements to CSS,
DynamicHTML internationalization
so popular, it was a
JScript
VBScript
Parts of CSS(draft)
Netscape Communicator 4.0
synonym for the
I got lots of help from
Inherits parts of
the code and
concept
Gecko
Highly supports
Web standard
technology
(Code name: “Seamonkey” )
Starts as a cooperative
project between fulltime Netscape staff and
the community with
funds from Netscape
Communications.
Mac OS 9
Release
Windows 2000
Release
Vertical Text
display
Netscape 6.0
Windows Me
Release
4.0
E-mail client
5.0 for Mac
IE was way ahead of
from scratch but by
5.0
making improvements to
Windows XP
Release
6.0
Mac OS X v10.0
Cheetah Release
Image Toolbar
Personal Bar
I was long supported by
something that already
existed.
Mac OS X v10.1
Puma Release
volunteers.
Mozilla Application Suite 1.0
AdWords
starts services
So it wasn’ t just made
us because I was so
premature..
Tabbed browsing
Pop-up blocking
6.0
6.0 SP1
Netscape 7.0
Displays
Japanese
Bug fixes
The browser feature
branches off
A rendering
engine made
based on
KHTML
Mac OS X v10.2
Jaguar Release
Mozilla Phoenix 0.1
Name change due to
claims by Phoenix
Presto
Develops
Mozilla Firebird 0.6
Release
We were working hard
while IE was off on
Name change due to claims
by the Firebird project
Development
terminated
with ver. 5.2.3
vacation.
Add-on Manager
Mozilla Application Suite 1.7
Established as a
non-profit
Mozilla Europe founded
Mozilla Japan founded
Google
5.5
Takes advantage
of development
Release
3.0
Starts as a search
engine company
popularity from about here.
Gecko.
Decides to delete code
based on NC5 and
create a zero-base plan
based on the new
rendering engine
“Gecko”
browser as a part of it.
IE started to rapidly gain
technology called
Mozilla Application Suite 0.6
freely with software. They needed a Web
4.0 for Mac
fresh start with a new
Release
Firefox 1.0
6.0 SP2
Here I finally come!
Pop-up blocking
Security warnings
for downloaded
files
Add-on manager
It was like a celebration - I even made
it onto a newspaper ad in the US!
Windows XP SP2
Release
Mac OS X v10.3
Panther Release
Safari becomes
the standard
browser on the
Mac
7.0
WebKit
New rendering
engine
Feed reader
IRC Client
Safari 1.0
Gmail
starts services
The Acid2 is a test
they use to see if a
Web browser is made
decently.
Google Maps
starts services
There were ads on
Google Desktop
Release
it was made free.
Auto Update
SVG
HTML Canvas
SVG Tiny
becomes
free
IE had some catching up to
The SeaMonkey Council
continues development
Passes Acid2 test
do after Firefox and other
competing browsers started
to gain share!
Google Pack
Release
SeaMonkey 1.0
2.0
7.0
2.0
2007
Tabbed browsing
Phishing alerts
Improvements to
Web standard
technology
compatibility
EV SSL
Phishing scam alerts
Resume browsing sessions
1.1
First Draft of the
Mozilla Manifesto
written
Feedback from
Firefox 2 improvements
Mac OS X v10.5
Leopard release
2009
3.2
Phishing scam reports and
tabs are becoming the
8.0
3.5
New JavaScript engine
Private browsing
Enforced compatibility with
HTML5
Logo change
2.0
Feedback from
Firefox 3.5 improvements
3.6
Personas
Plugins
Process
separation
(3.6.4~)
2011
Android 1.0
Release
Release
- W3C XHTML WG
terminates
- ECMAScript 5th
Improvements to
Web standard
technology
compatibility
Multi-Process
Session resumption
Windows 7
Release
evolution. Wait for more to come!
standard here!
Mac OS X v10.6
Snow Leopard
Release
Phishing
scam reports
EV SSL
Chrome 1.0
V8
2.0
4.0
Top Sites
Cover Flow
Sync speed dials and
bookmarks
Full text search from
history
EV SSL
10.00
3.0
Development of
the iPad starts
New JavaScript engine
Private Browsing
5.0
10.60
Reader
add-on
8.0
11.00
Google+
starts services
3G JavaScript engine
Hardware acceleration
WebGL
Firefox Sync
Firefox for Android
9.5
10.50
Windows Phone 7
Release
And here I continue on with my
4.0
9.0
3.0
Web clipping
Unification of bookmarks
and history
Smart location bar
EV SSL
Passes Acid2 test
2012
BitTorrent Widget
Passes Acid2 test
Phishing scam reports
take over a project.
3.0
- HTML5 final
draft published
- WebGL 1.0
Google Docs &
Spreadsheets
starts service
iPhone debuts
development can a community
- WebM announced
- CSS Snapshot
2010
9.0
Feed reader
Windows Vista
Release
Only in open source
2008
- HTML5
draft published
the toolbar before
8.0
Mac OS X v10.4
Tiger Release
- W3C HTML WG
founded
Tab stacking extension
9.0
2.1
Feedback from
Firefox 4 improvements
11.50
New JavaScript
engine hardware
acceleration
HTML5 compatible
OS X 10.7 Lion
Release
Changes to UI design
5.1
Reading list
16.0
11.60
JavaScript type inference
(some versions are
omitted from chart)
Updates continues
with feedback from
Firefox updates
14.0
Windows 8
Release
10.0
Native UI for Android
release
2013
OS X 10.8
Mountain Lion
Release
6.0
Logo change
just like on the consoles!
7.0
11.0
14.0
IE 11 becomes the last
major version of IE
OS X 10.10
Yosemite
Release
dedicated for developers!
Blink Engine
Apple and Google stopped
OS X 10.9
Mavericks
Release
WebGL
It’ s the world’ s first browser
12.00
12.15
28.0
games on the browser
webRTC
asm.js
Google Glass
Last Opera version
with Presto engine
You can now play 3D
22.0
(some versions are
omitted from chart)
24.0
Integration of
Epic Games and
Unreal Engine
- Firefox OS
the co-development of the
Changes engine to
Webkit
15.0
Changes engine to
Blink
WebKit and Chrome moved
to the Blink engine that
8.0
Blink
diverged from Webkit.
Firefox Developer Edition
2015
2016
environments like Windows and Mac
Ruby display
I was able to make a
2006
- HTTP/2
- ECMAScript 2015
- Firefox OS TV
- CSS Snapshot 2015
KDE is a project where you can make
5.0
Develops
1.5
- HTML5
recommendation
- WebCL 1.0
Windows 98
Release
IE integrated into
Windows
Becomes the
standard Web
browser on the
Mac after 4.5
Mozilla Corporation
founded
Mozilla China founded
2014
3.0 for Mac
Terminated
Mozilla Application Suite
[Milestone 3 -18]
Starts
development
of the KHTMLW
Mac OS 8 Release
CSS
DynamicHTML
Source code
made open!
Netscape Communicator 5.0
first..
2005
- Firefox extended
support release
Mac OS 7.6 Release
4.0
much a success at
2004
2010
KDE
Project
Trident
Develops
people but I wasn’ t
Opera 2.0
2.0 for Mac
Netscape Navigator 3.0
Gold Edition
The Netscape was
Release
Most of the
of today already
Netscape Navigator 3.0
Standard Edition
NC4.x is distributed for
free
NC 5. 0 under
development made
open source
MultiTorg Opera 1.0
until 1997!
2.0
Internet.
The Netscape Navigator
browser on the Mac
this time
Develops
Opera
Software
The first forms of
tabbed browsing
is seen
was the standard web
were made by Netscape around
- AOL v Microsoft
case settlement
marks end of
the browser war
- Blogs become a
boom in Japan
- CSS Snapshot 2007
Windows 95
is released
Develops
with IE around here.
communications)Java Script
Acquires license
for Mosaic
Release
Mozilla Classic
JavaScript
NETSCAPE
COMMUNICATIONS
2003
- Ajax
- Web2.0
Microsoft
Acquires license
for Mosaic
- AOL/Netscape
sues Microsoft of
violation of antitrust
laws
- Rise of “post-war”
browsers
- WHATWG founded
- JIS X 8341-3 enact
- SNS including mixi
and GREE become a
boom
Apple
Spyglass Mosaic
Release
1999
- ECMAScript 3rd
Cello
Release
Spyglass
(Code name: “Mozilla” )
Samba (MacWWW)
World’ s first browser
for Windows
The source code for the
WorldWideWeb is
published as public domain
Founded by Mark
Andreesen and James Clark
- The Browser war
intensifies
- CSS1
recommendation
- HTTP/1.0
- HTML 4.0
recommendation
- HTTP/1.1
- ECMAScript 1st
NCSA Mosaic
licenses
1996
1997
IE is based off of mosaic too!
We share ancestry
Release
Mosaic
Communications
World’ s first
Web browser
for the Mac
Viola
Mark Andreesen’ s
team develops Mosaic
Breakaway after
dispute over
Mosaic rights.
A high-function browser compatible
with scripts and style sheets
Developed using
the libwww
38.0
Ruby
EME
Simultaneous
development
with Firefox
42.0
Private Browsing with
Tracking Protection
Unity officially
supports WebGL publishing
Edge
Apple Watch
debuts
Release
Windows 10
Release
Edge
Firefox for iOS
OS X 10.11
El Capitan
Release
28.0
9.0
Alphabet founded
asm.js
JavaScript Engine
Chakra Core
becomes Open
Source
Multi-process
WebExtension
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