It was always getfirefox.com for many years. Was someone simply squatting on the firefox.com domain and asking some exorbitant price from Mozilla to relinquish it?
Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com
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#12Where was it before? Been using Firefox non stop for 20 years but last time I went to the website was probably when I still used Windows XP.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozil...
In other words, the download page used to be:
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#13It was always getfirefox.com for many years. Was someone simply squatting on the firefox.com domain and asking some exorbitant price from Mozilla to relinquish it?
It was owned by a UK company called Firefox.
They actually linked to both Mozilla and Get Firefox for many years as a landing page.
When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.
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#14Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"
Chrome = Google.com
Edge = Microsoft.com
Safari = Apple.com
Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around.
Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name.
(Note: I’m not saying that I think it’s a bad thing.)
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#15Where was it before? Been using Firefox non stop for 20 years but last time I went to the website was probably when I still used Windows XP.
I always liked https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ but that's not the primary consumer page.
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#16It was always getfirefox.com for many years. Was someone simply squatting on the firefox.com domain and asking some exorbitant price from Mozilla to relinquish it?
It was owned by a UK company called Firefox. They actually linked to both Mozilla and Get Firefox for many years as a landing page. When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.
That‘s… commendable… or foolish?
I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.
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#17Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"
Chrome = Google.com Edge = Microsoft.com Safari = Apple.com Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around. Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name. (Note: I’m not saying that I think it’s a bad thing.)
chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/
No one has to download Edge or Safari.
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#18Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"
Chrome = Google.com Edge = Microsoft.com Safari = Apple.com Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around. Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name. (Note: I’m not saying that I think it’s a bad thing.)
chrome.com redirects to https://www.google.com/chrome/ for whatever it's worth.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was owned by a UK company called Firefox. They actually linked to both Mozilla and Get Firefox for many years as a landing page. When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.
That‘s… commendable… or foolish? I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.
And what, have it serve as malware/phishing?
Thankfully most people still seem to have morals and not fallen prey to pure capitalism
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was owned by a UK company called Firefox. They actually linked to both Mozilla and Get Firefox for many years as a landing page. When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.
That‘s… commendable… or foolish? I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.
It's my experience that people who look for a way to profit off of every situation they encounter are usually both wealthier than me and also generally quite miserable, lonely folks. Also ironically, they usually are only as wealthy as they are due to generosity given to them earlier in life they would never give to others.
Not said with judgement, just observing.