If you are a person who always go online everyday. You must be familiar with Mozilla Firefox, one of the leading browsers in the virtual world. In fact, many people usually use this browser to browsing internet. But did you know if the Mozilla Firefox browser was initiated by a teenager?
If you did not know about this. Let Entrepreneur Success Stories tells you about this amazing guy behind the successful of Mozilla Firefox become most favourite browser for netter.
Blake Ross was born in Miami, Florida. He
joined Netscape as an apprentice at the age of 14 years. Then he joined
Stanford University Stanford University.
Blake Ross is a young genius who created
the Mozilla, internet explorer facilities. Mozilla released to the public in
November 2004. At that time, Blake was 19 years old boy!
Browser Mozilla Firefox is initiated by a
15-year-old teenager, Blake Ross. The reason young people born June 12, 1985 is
simple: To help his mother. The mother Abby Ross, often complained that she used
the browser, Internet Explorer, its performance is really disappointing. The mother
was upset when she could not make a bookmark, and could not get rid of the ads that appear
at the top of the browser (pop-up ads). The mother also did not know how to
deal with viruses that often break into Internet Explorer.
Eager to help his mother, Ross started to learn programming. At night, he learned HTML, web programming language and
then Microsoft Visual Basic, which can create simple applications. He then
began to actively take part in the Mozilla community, which is based on
open-source.
Ross who first created his own site when he was 10 years, later was offered an internship at Netscape Communications
Corporation. At the age of 15, was escorted ibunnya, Ross moved from Florida to
California. Netscape is one of the pioneers in the browser world is finally
excluded because of competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
In 1998,
Netscape released all the code to open-source software, which allows anyone to
tamper with the code.
Ross was seriously pursue lebi Netscape
code. "It was in Netscape's all broke, and was not having the strength to
defeat Internet Explorer," said Ross.
Mozilla Phoenix
On a summer evening, Ross is involved
intensive discussion with Dave Hyatt, a senior engineer at Netscape. they
proved to have a dream-ita and the same view. Namely the need for a browser
which is more simple, accessible and safe.
They decided to develop a code of
Netscape and create a new Mozilla-based browser. Browser bar is given NAA
Phoenix and Mozilla officially launched in September 2002, when Ross was 17
years old. Mozilla Phoenix has a number of interesting features, more stable and
faster.
Phoenix is a bird's name is told in the
legend reborn after burning to ashes. Phoenix is symbolic name of the new
version of Netscape reborn. Unfortunately the name Mozilla Phoenix could not
stay long in use after the objections of Phoenix Technologies which holds the
copyright to the name Phoenix. Hyatt and Ross then converting the name to Mozilla
Firebird.
"But there is an open source
database called Firebird. So the camp was forced to change the name again. At
that time we decided to use istila 'fire' in nam who will dgunakan. After many
months, finally there is someone who sparked the name Firefox. We thought name
it's pretty good. We also like the Firefox name, which is actually means a red-skinned for pandas in China. "Ross added.
November 2004 they launched Firefox 1.0.
Some programmer then joined to improve Mozilla Firefox, like Ben Goodger,23, engineers from Zealand, Chris Messina a 22-year-old programmer and
Howard Dean, a long acting d field of website development.
Ross and his team work together to popularize
Mozilla Firefox. They created a logo for Firefox, in the form of the earth
wrapped in fire fox. They also launched a community called SpreadFirefox.
From around the world they try to introduce
Firefox fans with less unique in its own way sometimes. For example, put a
banner that said 'get Firefox' in the Danish parliament building, deploying
Firefox cards in an anti-Bush campaign in England, and put up posters in
Taiwan. For ten days nominally funds of U.S. $ 200,000 which was used as a
full-page ad in The New York Times.
Firefox finally known in June 2005 after
the U.S. Department of Homelang Security issued a warning Internet Explorer
vulnerability and proposed Internet users to search for alternative browsers,
only Safari and Firefox, a lot of people then try Firefox.
Even the Microsoft-owned site, Slate,
helped popularize Firefox. "We're using Firefox for a week," wrote
Flate, "and we've forgotten Exporer."
Less than a year after its launch Firefox
has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Firefox slowly but surely
become a serious threat to Internet Explorer. Moreover, as part of open source
projects, Firefox always updated by thousands of programmers working together.
Microsoft's Nightmare
Firefox's popularity makes Ross, the
architect of Firefox live in the spotlight. Ross and his Firefox soon become Microsoft's biggest nightmare. Yet when Ross created the Firefox main goal is not to compete with
the Explorer.
Until late 2010, according to data
released by StatCounter, Firefox is used 32% of Internet users around the world and still be a serious competitor for Internet Explorer. Internet
Explorer is used approximately 49% of internet users.
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