The Inventor

Blake Ross's

Internet users must have been familiar with the name Mozilla Firefox, a powerful web browser application that is famous and widely used by surfers in cyberspace. But who would have thought, the creator of Mozilla is a young man who is now 29 years old, Blake Ross.

He was born in Miami, Florida, United States on June 12, 1985. When he was 10 years old, he had made his first website and at the age of 15 years he had become a contractor from the company Netscape.

Actually in 2002, Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt have started making the latest version of Netscape Web Browser that has simple, stable, and fast features that later became the forerunner of Mozilla Firefox .

From his intelligence then he was accepted to study at Stanford University in 2003, United States, a year he studied there, he then developed mozilla as a web browser application on the internet which at that time more web browser applications mastered by Internet Explorer and also Netscape Navigator. In 2004, Mozilla Firefox made by Blake Ross was officially released to the public, where at that time he was only 19 years old.

IN THE RENEGADE OF THE YEAR CATEGORY

Blake Ross dropped out of Stanford University in 2005. In the same year, Blake Ross was nominated for the Wired magazine award, in the Renegade of the Year category. His competitors for the award include Google co-founders Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Jon Stewart, the same year he was featured in Rolling Stone magazine's 2005 Hotlist.

Blake Ross made a fresh start with his friend who is a former Netscape employee named Joe Hewitt, he is the creator of the Firebug application that has functions in terms of the firefox interface and also the composing codes.

MOZILLA FIREFOX BY BLAKE ROSS

In a fairly short time, Firefox is quickly accepted by the public and is the most widely used web browser by Internet users around the world. Just imagine when the launch of Firefox 2.0, users who download it more than 2 Million people in just 24 hours.

Another advantage of Firefox is that the program is made very fast, stable, and, easy to use for home users and safe from ad intrusions and viruses in addition Firefox is also distributed free of charge and is open source meaning it is easily modified by the community or developer.

Blake Ross created a firefox mozilla inspired by the 1998 web browser war between Internet Explorer and Netscape which was later won by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but from here then Netscape has another way to survive that they open the program code of the Netscape application so that it can be developed by other developers this then that triggers Blake Ross to create Firefox which later become a web browser application with the most users in the world.

The logo that Blake Ross chose for mozilla firefox is a phoenix with gray Mozilla and Netscape. Then it changed to the Fire Fox Logo.