Mozilla today pulled out the PR stops to trumpet the 10th anniversary of Firefox, and in celebration released an interim build of Firefox 33 that includes a new privacy tool and access to the DuckDuckGo search engine.

Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9, 2004, at a time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) had a stranglehold on the browser space, having driven Netscape — Firefox’s forerunner in many ways — out of the market two years before. Mozilla has been widely credited with restarting browser development, which had been moribund under IE.

Today’s Firefox 33.1 offered DuckDuckGo as a new pre-installed search engine choice, joining Amazon, Bing, Google, Yahoo and others.

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