Posts Tagged ‘layout engine’

2004 – Mozilla launches the web browser that would finally give Internet Explorer a run for it’s money. The Firefox 1.0 web browser was created by Mozilla, who broke free from the Netscape Navigator browser to develop in Open Source. The Gecko layout engine browser would be available for Windows, Mac and Linux – with it being the standard browser in current flavors of Ubuntu. Last year on it’s 3.5 release, it set a new worlds record download. Firefox currently takes 1/5 of the market browser share.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Blizzard settles a lawsuit with Micro Star
• Netscape acquires Collabra
• Albert Einstein is awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in Physics

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