Mozilla Celebrates Its 10th Birthday

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday January 23, 2008 @09:24AM 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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Re:Once dominant browser? by shellbeach · 2008-01-23 12:08 · Score: 1, Redundant

Thems was the REAL browser wars. Do you have your Windows 95 Plus Pack yet? Ah, the Windows 95 Plus pack, that gave everyone who bought it smoothed fonts (and themes, too, IIRC). I remember it well! Not as exciting as the gradient titlebars in the early Memphis betas, though ...

'course, before the IE vs. Netscape war there was the Netscape vs. NCSA Mosaic war. And before that, there was the Mosaic vs. gopher war. Like fire across the galaxy, the browser wars spread ...