As Firefox turns 10, Mozilla trumpets privacy
Mozilla today pulled out the PR stops to trumpet the 10th anniversary of Firefox, and in celebration released an interim build of Firefox 33 that includes a new privacy tool and access to the DuckDuckGo search engine.
Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9, 2004, at a time when Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) had a stranglehold on the browser space, having driven Netscape -- Firefox's forerunner in many ways -- out of the market two years before. Mozilla has been widely credited with restarting browser development, which had been moribund under IE.
Today's Firefox 33.1 offered DuckDuckGo as a new pre-installed search engine choice, joining Amazon, Bing, Google, Yahoo and others. "DuckDuckGo gives you search results without tracking who you are or what you search for," said Johnathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox, in a blog post. "Other engines may use tracking to enhance your search results, but we believe that's a choice you should get to make for yourself."
