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Where s the Firefox for Search?

Posted on June 18, 2008

Aside from the kvetching and grumbling yesterday about Mozilla s servers struggling under the strain, one thing that struck me about yesterday s Firefox download frenzy was how Firefox has emerged from an interesting open-source project to 20% of the browser market.When Firefox started, Internet Explorer had emasculated Netscape - leaving it with 90%+ of the market and little competition. Then, Firefox leapt onto the scene. Slowly but surely, it started to gain more traction and market share. Ass important, it has sparked the creation of new browsers such as Flock.Firefox has been successf...

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