Happy Birthday, Firefox

 

On November 9, 2004, Mozilla’s Firefox 1.0 debuted and quickly became a serious contender in the ongoing browser wars. At the time, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominated the market with a 99 percent market share. Five years later, Internet Explorer still reigns at 65 percent, but Firefox comes in second with an impressive 23 percent.

 

 

Firefox currently has 330 million users worldwide, and celebrated its 1 billionth download in July. The celebration doesn’t stop with press releases and birthday candles — Mozilla is launching a worldwide campaign called"Light the World with Firefox" that will blast the Firefox logo into the skies of cities across the globe. Mozilla also released an illustrated YouTube video telling its story over the past five years. Check out the Spread Firefox site for Mozilla’s game plan for the next five years.

 

 

There’s a lot in store for the little browser that could, and I’m certain millions of people are closely watching its evolution as history unfolds before our eyes.

 

 

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