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Mozilla Celebrates Its 10th Birthday

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-heart-the-fox dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Mozilla has turned 10 today. It's been a long, strange trip from being the once-dominant browser, going down to almost nothing, and returning to something like 25% of the browser market. 'With a sliding market share, Netscape decided to focus on its enterprise oriented products and gave away the browser but most importantly allow volunteers to work on the product. Mozilla was nothing but Netscape's user agent (the name a browser uses to contact the web server), a reminder of the first Netscape code name. Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL would buy Netscape and Internet Explorer would get up to 90%+ of market share leading to the worst period in web browsers' history where innovation was a niche for Opera and IE remixes users.'"

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  1. Congrats by MacarooMac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Still can't drink, drive, vote or fuck tho'

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    1. Re:Congrats by MacarooMac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah well, that 10 year old's done more to Microsoft than you ever will
      I guess I'd better go buy one of those jumbo strap-ons then
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    2. Re:Congrats by Runefox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I didn't know you could strap a 747 to your crotch. Wow, you've got skills.

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    3. Re:Congrats by MacarooMac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Strapping it on is not a probem but you firstly need to install the Firefox 'UnPlug' extension to make the device reusable.

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  2. In the immortal words of the great Clippy.... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL would buy Netscape and Internet Explorer would get up to 90%+ of market share leading to the worst period in web browsers' history where innovation was a niche for Opera and IE remixes users.


    In the immortal words of the great Clippy: "English, MF-er, speak it?" I haven't seen a jumbled run-on like this since Stallman was last in town.