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[[File:Wikipedia Main Page in Firefox 2.0.0.12.png|thumb|Firefox 2.0, shown here, was released in October 2006]]

At the start of Netscape Navigator's decline, Netscape open-sourced their browser code, and later entrusted it to the newly formed non-profit [[Mozilla Foundation]]—a primarily community-driven project to create a successor to Netscape. Development continued for several years with little widespread adoption until a stripped-down browser-only version of the full suite, which included new features such as a separate search bar (which had previously only appeared in the Opera browser), was created. The browser-only version was initially named ''[[Mozilla Phoenix|Phoenix]]'', but because of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_historyFirefox early version history#Phoenix_and_FirebirdPhoenix and Firebird|trademark issues]] that name was changed, first to ''Firebird'', then to ''[[Firefox]]''. This browser became the focus of the Mozilla Foundation's development efforts and Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. It then continued to gain an increasing share of the browser market until a peak in 2010.

In 2003, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 would be the last standalone version of its browser. Future enhancements would be dependent on [[Windows Vista]], which would include new tools such as the [[Windows Presentation Foundation|WPF]] and [[Extensible Application Markup Language|XAML]] to enable developers to build web applications.