Phoenix1.20.1Pescadero2002.9.23First release. Customizable toolbar, quicksearch.[2]0.2Santa Cruz2002.10.1Sidebar, extension management.[3]0.3Lucia2002.10.14Image blocking, pop-up blocking whitelist, tabbed browsing.[4]1.30.4Oceano2002.10.19Themes, pop-up blocking improvements, toolbar customization.[5]0.5Naples2002.12.7Multiple homepages, sidebar and accessibility improvements.[6]Firebird1.50.6Glendale2003.5.17New default theme (Qute), bookmark and privacy improvements, smooth scrolling, automatic image resizing.[7]0.6.12003.7.28Bugfix release.[8]0.7Indio2003.10.15Automatic scrolling, password manager, preferences panel improvements.[9]0.7.1Three Kings2003.10.26Bugfix release (Mac OS X only).[10]Firefox1.60.8Royal Oak2004.2.9Windows installer, offline working, bookmarks and download manager improvements, rebranded with new logo.[11]1.70.9One Tree Hill2004.6.15New default theme (Winstripe), comprehensive data migration, new extension/theme manager, reduced download size, new help system, Linux installer, mail icon (Windows only).[12]0.9.12004.6.28Bugfix release, updated default theme.[13]0.9.22004.7.8Vulnerability patch (Windows only).[13]0.9.32004.8.4Vulnerability patch.[14]0.10Firefox 1.0 Preview Release “Greenlane“2004.9.14Bugs with higher complexity/risk, localization impact, RSS/Atom feed support, find toolbar, plugin finder.[15]0.10.12004.10.1Vulnerability patch.[16]Firefox 11.0 RC1Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 1 “Mission Bay”2004.10.27First Firefox release candidate.1.0 RC2Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 2 “Whangamata”2004.11.3Second Firefox release candidate.1.0Firefox 1.0 “Phoenix”2004.11.9Official version 1.0 release. Official localized builds.[17]1.0.1Rose & Crown2005.2.24Regular security and stability update.[18]1.0.22005.3.23Regular security and stability update.[19]1.0.32005.4.15Regular security and stability update. Installer improvements.[20]1.0.42005.5.11Regular security and stability update. Fix to DHTML errors encountered at some web sites.[21]1.0.52005.7.12Regular security and stability update.[22]1.0.62005.7.19Off-cycle stability update. Restored API compatibility for extensions and web applications that did not work in Firefox 1.0.5.[23]1.0.72005.9.20Regular security and stability update.[24]1.0.82006.4.13Regular security and stability update.[25]End-of-life 1.0.x product lineFirefox 1.51.81.1a1Deer Park Alpha 1 “Strippenkaart“2005.5.31First Firefox 1.1 alpha release. Support for SVG and canvas. “Sanitize” privacy feature. Improvements in JavaScript 1.5 and CSS 2/3. Broken website reporter tool.[26]1.1a2Deer Park Alpha 22005.7.12Second Firefox 1.1 alpha release. Blazing fast backwards and forwards (FastBack), drag-and-drop tab reordering, improved pop-up blocking, error pages instead of error dialogs.[27]1.5b1Firefox 1.5 Beta 12005.9.9First Firefox 1.5 beta release. New update system (binary patch). Prettier error pages, more Luna-like Winstripe theme (did not blend well with the Classic theme).[28]1.5b2Firefox 1.5 Beta 22005.10.6Second Firefox 1.5 beta release. Improvements to automated update system, website rendering and performance. Several security fixes.[29]1.5 RC1Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 12005.11.1First Firefox 1.5 release candidate.1.5 RC2Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 22005.11.10Second Firefox 1.5 release candidate.1.5 RC3Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 32005.11.17Third Firefox 1.5 release candidate.1.5Firefox 1.5 “Deer Park”2005.11.29Official version 1.5 release. Official localized builds. Identical to 1.5 RC3.[30]1.5.0.12006.2.1Regular security and stability update.[31]1.5.0.22006.4.13Regular security and stability update. Native support for Intel-based Macintosh computers by shippinguniversal binary.[32]1.5.0.3May 2, 2006Off-cycle security update. Fix for a publicly disclosed denial of service weakness.[33]1.5.0.4June 1, 2006Regular security and stability update.[34]1.5.0.5July 26, 2006Regular security and stability update. Added changes for Frisian locale (fy-NL).[35]1.5.0.6August 2, 2006Off-cycle security and stability update. Fixed an issue with playing Windows Media content introduced by previous update.[36]1.5.0.7September 14, 2006Regular security and stability update.[37]1.5.0.8November 7, 2006Regular security and stability update.[38]1.5.0.9December 19, 2006Regular security and stability update.[39]1.5.0.10February 23, 2007Regular security and stability update.[40]1.5.0.11March 20, 2007Regular security and stability update. Regression fixes.[41]1.5.0.12May 30, 2007Regular security and stability update.[42]End-of-life 1.5.0.x product lineFirefox 21.8.12.0a1Bon Echo Alpha 1March 22, 2006First Firefox 2.0 alpha release.[43]2.0a2Bon Echo Alpha 2May 12, 2006Second Firefox 2.0 alpha release. Links default to open in new tab. Close button on every tab. Inlinespell checking for text boxes. Session restoration after browser crash. Search suggestion for Google and Yahoo!. New search plugin manager and add-on manager. Web feed previewing. Bookmarkmicrosummaries. Updates to extension system. Support for Sherlock and OpenSearch. Support for SVG text using svg:textPath.[44]2.0a3Bon Echo Alpha 3May 26, 2006Third Firefox 2.0 alpha release. Anti-phishing protection. Search suggestions appear with search history in the search box for Google and Yahoo!. Support for client-side session and persistent storage.[45]2.0b1Firefox 2.0 Beta 1July 12, 2006First Firefox 2.0 beta release. Improved feed support. New NSIS-based installer. JavaScript 1.7. Enhanced security and localization support for extensions.[46]2.0b2Firefox 2.0 Beta 2August 31, 2006Second Firefox 2.0 beta release. New Winstripe theme refresh: new navigation icons, URL bar refresh (new Go button attached to the URL bar), Search bar refresh, Tab bar refresh, Alltabs button (used to view a popup list of all tabs open).[47]2.0 RC1Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 1September 26, 2006First Firefox 2.0 release candidate.[48]2.0 RC2Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2October 6, 2006Second Firefox 2.0 release candidate.[49]2.0 RC3Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 3October 16, 2006Third Firefox 2.0 release candidate.[50]2.0Firefox 2.0 “Bon Echo“October 24, 2006Official version 2.0 release, identical to 2.0 RC3. Official localized builds.[51]2.0.0.1December 19, 2006Regular security and stability update.[52]2.0.0.2February 23, 2007Regular security and stability update.[53]2.0.0.3March 20, 2007Regular security and stability update. Regression fixes and security fixes.[54]2.0.0.4May 30, 2007Regular security and stability update.[55]2.0.0.5July 17, 2007Security and stability update.[56]2.0.0.6July 30, 2007Regular security and stability update.[57]2.0.0.7September 18, 2007Off-cycle security update.[58]2.0.0.8October 18, 2007Regular security and stability update. Mac OS X 10.5 support.[59]2.0.0.9November 1, 2007Off-cycle security and stability update.[60]2.0.0.10November 26, 2007Off-cycle security and stability update.[61]2.0.0.11November 30, 2007Off-cycle stability update.[62]2.0.0.12February 7, 2008Regular security and stability update.[63]2.0.0.13March 25, 2008Regular security and stability update.[64]2.0.0.14April 16, 2008Off-cycle stability update.[65]2.0.0.15July 1, 2008Regular security and stability update.[66]2.0.0.16July 15, 2008Off-cycle security update.[67]2.0.0.17September 23, 2008Regular security and stability update.[68]2.0.0.18November 12, 2008Regular security and stability update.[69]2.0.0.19December 16, 2008Regular security and stability update.[70]2.0.0.20December 18, 2008Off-cycle security update.[71]End-of-life 2.0.0.x product lineFirefox 31.93.0a1Gran Paradiso Alpha 1December 8, 2006First Firefox 3.0 alpha release. Cairo graphics library. Cocoa Widgets in OS X builds. Updated threading model. Changes to how DOM events are dispatched, how HTML object elements are loaded, and how web pages are painted. New SVG elements and filters, and improved SVG specification compliance. Windows 95, 98, ME and Mac OS X v10.2 no longer supported. Moving DOM nodes between documents require a call to importNode or adoptNode as per the DOM specification.[72]3.0a2Gran Paradiso Alpha 2February 7, 2007Second Firefox 3.0 alpha release. Reflow refactoring (leading to Acid2 test compliance) among numerous layout bug fixes. Web Apps 1.0 API for changing stylesheets support. Inline-block and inline-table values of CSS 2.1’s display property implemented. XML documents can be rendered during download. Greatly improved Mac widgets support since Alpha 1. Improvements in Cairo graphics layer. Non-standard JavaScript “Script” object no longer supported.[73]3.0a3Gran Paradiso Alpha 3March 23, 2007Third Firefox 3.0 alpha release. Support for allowing web pages to store resources in the browser’s offline cache. Support for Animated PNG images. Support for the “HTTPOnly” cookie extension which provides enhanced cookie privacy (also backported to Firefox 2.0.0.5). Improvements to layout and scaling precision across numerous screen and printer resolutions.[74]3.0a4Gran Paradiso Alpha 4April 27, 2007Fourth Firefox 3.0 alpha release. Adding of FUEL JavaScript library for extension developers. Rewrite of Page Info dialog. Upgrade to Cairo 1.4.2. More Cocoa regression fixes.[75]3.0a5Gran Paradiso Alpha 5June 6, 2007Fifth Firefox 3.0 alpha release. Places (bookmark and history service based on SQLite) used by default, but no front-end changes. Breakpad used as crash reporter on Windows and Mac OS X, superseding closed-source Talkback. Password manager rewrite. Support for Growl and native widgets within forms for Mac OS X.[76]3.0a6Gran Paradiso Alpha 6July 2, 2007Sixth Firefox 3.0 alpha release. Upgrade of SQLite to version 3.3.17, leading to increased cookieperformance due to transition of cookie service to SQLite. Site-specific preference service, used initially for text zoom, allowing zoom setting to remain on each website. Support for native widgets within forms for Linux. New Quit dialog handles multiple windows more elegantly and allows users to save session. Autoscroll rewrite: numerous bug fixes and significant performance gain. Fixes to the use of units within the download manager. Various Places bug fixes.[77]3.0a7Gran Paradiso Alpha 7August 3, 2007Seventh Firefox 3.0 alpha release. More APIs implemented from WHATWG specs, such as ability to read files from file selection fields without need to upload and cut/copy/paste events, and cross-siteXMLHttpRequest. New protocol-handling dialog. Experimental full-page zoom support, but no UI to control it. Numerous Mac OS X bug fixes, but Mac OS X 10.3 no longer supported for Gecko 1.9. General bug fixes.[78]3.0a8Gran Paradiso Alpha 8September 20, 2007Eighth Firefox 3.0 alpha release. New, basic UI for tagging bookmarks. Remember password prompt changed to non-modal information bar. Malware blacklist support. New UI for FTP and File protocol listings. Applications pane added to preferences. Basic support for web-based protocol handlers.[79]3.0b1Firefox 3.0 Beta 1November 19, 2007First Firefox 3.0 beta release.[80]3.0b2Firefox 3.0 Beta 2December 18, 2007Second Firefox 3.0 beta release. New UI improvements, including redesigned location bar, Places Organizer, Smart Bookmarks. Various stability and performance improvements.[81]3.0b3Firefox 3.0 Beta 3February 12, 2008Third Firefox 3.0 beta release. New UI improvements, including redesigned buttons and location bar. Different default native themes for each operating system. Upgraded to SQLite 3.5.4. Various stability and performance improvements.[82]3.0b4Firefox 3.0 Beta 4March 10, 2008Fourth Firefox 3.0 beta release. New UI improvement, including improved default themes for different operating systems. Various improvements in speed and resource usage.[83]3.0b5Firefox 3.0 Beta 5April 2, 2008Fifth Firefox 3.0 beta release. Further improved themes to match various operating systems, JavaScript engine optimizations for speed, improved Places organizer.[84]3.0 RC1Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1May 16, 2008First Firefox 3.0 release candidate.[85]3.0 RC2Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 2June 5, 2008Second Firefox 3.0 release candidate.[86]3.0 RC3Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 3June 11, 2008Third Firefox 3.0 release candidate.[87]3.0Firefox 3.0 “Gran Paradiso“June 17, 2008Official version 3.0 release.[88]3.0.1July 16, 2008Security and stability update.[89]3.0.2September 23, 2008Regular security and stability update.[90]3.0.3September 26, 2008Bug fix for retrieving and saving passwords.[91]3.0.4November 12, 2008Regular security and stability update.[92]3.0.5December 16, 2008Regular security and stability update.[93]3.0.6February 3, 2009Regular security and stability update.[94]3.0.7March 4, 2009Regular security and stability update.[95]3.0.8March 27, 2009Off-cycle security update.[96]3.0.9April 21, 2009Regular security and stability update.[97]3.0.10April 27, 2009Off-cycle stability update.[98]3.0.11June 11, 2009Regular security and stability update.[99]3.0.12July 21, 2009Regular security and stability update.[100]3.0.13August 3, 2009Regular security and stability update.[101]3.0.14September 9, 2009Regular security and stability update.[102]3.0.15October 27, 2009Regular security and stability update.[103]3.0.16December 15, 2009Regular security and stability update.[104]3.0.17January 5, 2010Off-cycle stability update.[105]3.0.18February 17, 2010Regular security and stability update.[106]3.0.19March 30, 2010Regular security and stability update.[107]End-of-life 3.0.x product lineFirefox 3.51.9.13.1a1Shiretoko Alpha 1July 28, 2008First Firefox 3.1 alpha release. Web standards improvements. Text API for the