Forever Techie

It is the only browser in the last ten years to make serious competition to Internet Explorer. Firefox, developed by the Mozilla Foundation, has already been downloaded one billion times.

Firefox came in 2004 and was gradually gaining users. Currently, controls about a third of the market for browsers - still far behind the leader Internet Explorer, Microsoft, which has a share of about 60 percent and which enjoys the advantage of coming pre-installed with Windows operating systems. The other users are divided almost all the Norwegian Opera, by Chrome (Google's) and Safari (Apple's).

In part because it undermined the empire of Microsoft and as an open-source application, Firefox has early earnest to create a community of users. In late 2004, the eve of the launch of version 1.0, Mozilla bought two pages of advertising in The New York Times, which put the name of ten thousand people who had contributed with donations to the project.