Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox

So we had the 40th birthday of the internet a couple of months back, and now we have Firefox's 5th birthday! (Wow, has it really been that long...?)

Ars Technica has an interesting article looking at the hopes and ideas of the Firefox team back when it first reached 1.0, as well as the current state of play:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/firefox-turns-five-half-a-decade-of-web-liberation.ars

Firefox has been my main browser for years now, and it just keeps getting better and better (especially the new AwesomeBar). However I think Firefox's biggest achievement of all was forcing Microsoft to wake up and develop IE7, thereby making the web a better place for everybody.

What's your browser of choice these days?

Matt

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Has it only been 5 years?? I could have sworn I started using it around 03. Oh of course, I'd forgotten all about Pheonix/Firebird. Makes sense now

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Ah yes, I'd forgotten about those names too!

And IE was originally called Spyglass Mosaic (before MS bought it) which, in turn, was modelled on NCSA Mosaic, the first popular Web browser. Funnily enough, Netscape Navigator (Firefox's ancestor) was created by a lot of the same people that created NCSA Mosaic. So you could say Firefox and IE have common ancestry (sort of)!

History lesson over
Matt

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Matt Doyle, Elated
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