In March 2011, Mozilla presented plans to switch to a faster 16-week development cycle, similar to Google Chrome. Main article: Firefox early version history Rapid releases This was gradually accelerated further in late 2019, so that new major releases occur on four-week cycles starting in 2020. Starting with version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks. Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser, first released as Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004.
