Firefox 3.0 recorded usage share of web browsers. Estimates of Firefox 3.0's global market share were generally in the range of 4–5%, and then dropped as users migrated to Firefox 3.5 and later Firefox 3.6. Partially as a result of this, between mid-December 2009 and the end of January 2010, Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser (when counting individual browser versions), passing Internet Explorer 7. Mozilla ended support for Firefox 3 on March 30, 2010 with the release of 3.0.19. Firefox 3.0 was developed under the codename "Gran Paradiso". This, like other Firefox codenames, is the name of an actual place;
Quirks mode Web Consortium, which maintains the XHTML specification, suggests that authors of XHTML documents could consider omitting the XML declaration. Henri Sivonen compiled a list of various document types and how they are treated in the most common browsers, showing whether pages are rendered in Quirks, Standards, or Almost standards mode. The criterion used for "Almost standards mode" is non-standard table cell height rendering. This table applies to content served with the Content-Type text/html. Content served with the Content-Type application/xhtml+xml is rendered in Standards mode in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9, Safari, and Opera. Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 do