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?
Hansenq · 4m ago
Seems like up until last month firefox.com redirected to mozilla.org/firefox. Now they're finally using their .com domain!
Finally! 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?"
globular-toast · 10m ago
Where 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.
jchw · 6m ago
I believe it was getfirefox.com, which I remember primarily from adding banners to websites I ran back in the day. I forgot who previously owned firefox.com but I recall them adding a link to getfirefox.com on it back in the day.
See
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37279788
https://web.archive.org/web/20250201000000*/firefox.com