Firefox version history


Market share overview
According to StatCounter data
May 2025
Browser  % of Fx  % of total
Firefox 1
Firefox 2
Firefox 3
Firefox 4
Firefox 59
Firefox 1016 2.93%0.07%
Firefox 1723
Firefox 2430
Firefox 3137
Firefox 3844
Firefox 4551
Firefox 5259 1.26%0.03%
Firefox 6067
Firefox 6877
Firefox 7890 0.42%0.01%
Firefox 91101
Firefox 102114
Firefox 115 and 115 ESR 8.37%0.20%
Firefox 116
Firefox 117
Firefox 118 4.18%0.10%
Firefox 119
Firefox 120
Firefox 121
Firefox 122
Firefox 123
Firefox 124
Firefox 125
Firefox 126
Firefox 127
Firefox 128 and 128 ESR 4.18%0.10%
Firefox 129
Firefox 130
Firefox 131
Firefox 132
Firefox 133 0.42%0.01%
Firefox 134 0.42%0.01%
Firefox 135 0.84%0.02%
Firefox 136 1.67%0.04%
Firefox 137 6.70%0.16%
Firefox 138 56.07%1.34%
Firefox 139 4.60%0.11%
Firefox 140 and 140 ESR
All variants 100%2.39%

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. Starting with version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks. This was gradually accelerated further in late 2019, so that new major releases occur on four-week cycles starting in 2020.