With support cut at the end of June, Firefox 1.5 dropped to just 2.85%." įirefox 2 began to lose notable market share to Firefox 3. Mozilla has even sacrificed version 1.5 of its open source browser for Firefox 2.0. From just 0.69% in October 2006, Firefox 2.0 is now accounting for 11.07% of the market. Internet Explorer 7 had climbed to 3.18%, while Firefox 2.0 was at 0.69%." Ī Softpedia article, however, noted in July 2007 that "Firefox 2.0 has been also expanding its share constantly in spite of IE7. Market adoption & usage of Firefox 2 Īs one article noted after the release of Firefox 2.0 in October 2006, " IE6 had the lion's share of the browser market with 77.22%.
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.20 is the final version to support Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98 and Windows Me, although it can run on Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51 using tweaks. It featured Gecko 1.8.1 for the first time. On March 22, 2006, the first alpha version of Firefox 2 (Bon Echo Alpha 1) was released. The release contained many new features not found in Firefox 1.5, including improved support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and JavaScript 1.7, as well as user interface changes.
Mozilla Firefox 2 is a version of Firefox, a web browser released on Octoby the Mozilla Corporation.įirefox 2 uses version 1.8 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages.