mozilla-firefox/firefox
- Total stars
- 13,635
- Today
- +7since 11:24 UTC
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About the project
Firefox is Mozilla's open-source web browser, focused on speed, reliability and privacy, developed by a non-profit organization. This repository contains the full browser source code, including the Gecko engine and frontend.
Useful for
- Build a custom Firefox build from source for a specific platform
- Study the implementation of the Gecko engine and browser frontend
- Contribute patches to Firefox via Bugzilla and Mozilla's review process
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 28, 2026, 19:11 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-28 (UTC), 11:24–19:02: 13628 → 13635 stars (+7). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +9 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #10, +23 stars.
- Hacker News: “Firefox 159” — 15 points, 1 day ago.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 99. -5% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 21, 2026
- 7
- October 22, 2026
- 12
- October 23, 2026
- 16
- October 24, 2026
- 13
- October 25, 2026
- 6
- October 26, 2026
- 22
- October 27, 2026
- 23
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 26 · September 29, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 28, 2026, 19:10 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 13,635
- Today
- +7 stars measured 2026-10-28, 11:24–19:02 UTC, ≈ 9 by evening
- Forks
- 1,699
- Issues and pull requests
- 421
- Watchers
- 85
- Language
- JavaScript
- Created
- July 30, 2024
- Last push
- October 28, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Firefox 15915 points, October 27, 2026
Spotted in
- October 28, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #9, +23 stars
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