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A perspective on Firefox and its legacy in todays over crowded world of unthinking apps. The original post is long enough for it to bounce - so below is the url and some of the initial text. ** Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/ Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts A decade of real choice - there's no app for that By Matt Asay<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/> Posted in Developer <http://www.theregister.co.uk/software/developer/>, 28th September 2012 14:59 GMT <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/> *Open ... and Shut* It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft. As mainstream users came to equate Internet Explorer's logo with the Web, Microsoft worked to lock in its advantage with increasingly proprietary technology like ActiveX. It surely would have done so, too, but for the seemingly futile Mozilla browser, née Firefox. Born in the ashes of Netscape's failed browser business 10 years ago this month as Phoenix, Firefox 1.0 is arguably the most important technology developed in the last 50 years. Precisely because it is about more than technology. Yes, *that* Firefox, the one that for years gobbled away at IE's 95 per cent market share, only to be largely supplanted in the hearts and minds of the geek elite by Google Chrome (though not in actual market share<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/firefox-continues-to-gain-as-internet-explorer-chrome-slide/> [1]). Given technology's focus on the latest and greatest, it's easy to forget that much of this "latest and greatest" wouldn't even be possible without the work Mozilla did for years with Firefox. Or that dominating the browser market was never Mozilla's aim with Firefox. Quixotic as it may sound, the purpose of Firefox was always to spread Web freedom. -- Ram _________________________________________________________<http://www.munsiari.com> Amazing Indians: Transforming lives in the hills<http://www.timesnow.tv/Amazing-Indians-Transforming-lives-in-the-hills/videoshow/4383022.cms> Himal Prakriti - A Trust for Nature <http://www.himalprakriti.org>
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