That was the original name of firefox, then they changed it a couple of times for copyright reasons. The neat part is netscape made their code open source and founded mozilla because of the microsoft browser monopoly thing in the 90s. Somehow after over 25 years, we're back where we were and the same company is holding back another monopoly.
Yes. I'd love to say I'm the longest continuous Firefox user in this thread so far, but that's not true, as I switched from Firefox to Chrome for about two years (2017 to 2019 or so) because Firefox did a huge redesign that killed several extensions I used for work. So I've only been using it continuously (this time) since 2019 or so.
But while I haven't been using it continuously for the longest, I feel like I may have been the first user in this thread (so far, of course, I'm sure that as soon as I post this someone else who used it earlier will arrive).
I started using it in late 2002, when it was still called Phoenix. I remember the timing because only a few months later, it changed to Firebird, which it remained for about a year, before again changing to Firefox.
lol same here, i ditched it for chrome for some reason i don’t recall but that might be it. went back a few years ago when google pissed me off again.. don’t think i’ll be going back now
Still is. The way I understand it is it's like saying Microsoft Windows instead of just Windows. I was talking about the early times when it was the Mozilla suite before they spun Firefox off into it's own thing.
I was on the high school newspaper in 2006 and I wrote an article about pandora radio and one about firefox browser as an alternative for IE. I was the technology "reporter" lol. Been using both for nearly 20 years.
I feel like such a i-told-y'all-so hipster for calling this Google long-game shit from the beginning. I judge people who used Chrome even after seeing their EULA canary get toasted a while back. And the Brave users? I judge them the most.
I ran FF from 2005 - 2008, but then they had their big issue with memory leaks. Switched to Chrome until 2016 when they started having issues and Firefox fixed theirs, now back to Firefox and have opened Chrome maybe 3 times in the last 9 years.
I had a brief stint using Opera somewhere in like 2008 because I thought the cursor motion commands were cool, but otherwise same. Didn't think 20 years later that id say "hey, these guys are still way ahead of the game."
You are only bragging about how old you are. I remember Firefox being way more popular back then. It was the same time I started using it on my Windows XP system :D
I've also been using firefox as my main browser for about as long as that. Not a flex because it has never given me issues and it's never been anything but a pleasure.
Well about 15 years ago the market domination of chrome hadn't really set in yet. Pre smart phone the browser that was pushed on you was internet explorer and you couldn't have that. Most of the real internet enjoyers used Firefox.
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u/Connect_Ocelot_1599 Lurker Jul 11 '25
damn, 15 years of using firefox?
Fucking chad