Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released on 9 November 2004

Yes, I know I'm a little late on this one, but I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I didn't say anything.

Firefox, for those who don't know, is a stand-alone web browser based off of the Mozilla Project, an open-source, standards-compliant web browser, email client, and application suite. Firefox started out it's life as a concept called the "Mozilla Browser" (as opposed to the "Mozilla Application Suite", the concept name for the Seamonkey project -- what most people think of when they hear the word "Mozilla"), which then became the Phoenix project. When the naming scheme changed over to the current one, Phoenix was renamed to Firebird. However, another open-source project with the same name was discovered, so to prevent confusion, Mozilla Firebird's name was again changed to "Mozilla Firefox".

More information -- and a more detailed history (I only glazed over the events for the purposes of this post) -- on Mozilla Firefox can be found in the Wikipedia article. For the record, the next milestone for Firefox -- 1.1 -- is currently planned for March 2005.