How Firefox Outran the Hounds
It has been a wild first decade for Mozilla. Despite having had a staff of fewer than 100 for most of its existence, the grassroots organization managed to break Microsoft's lock on the Web browser market. If not for Mozilla's popular Firefox browser, Microsoft's software might have come to dominate the Internet the way it does computers. It's an achievement that demonstrates how an open standards software project guided by an unusual mix of social and business principles can have a huge impact on the technology industry.
Over the past four years, Firefox has steadily chomped away at Microsoft's commanding share of the market. When Firefox was launched in late 2004, about 95 percent of the world's Web surfers were using Microsoft's Internet Explorer. As of May, Firefox's worldwide market share was 18.4 percent, while Internet Explorer's stood at 73.8 percent.
Oddly enough, Mozilla has Microsoft to thank for some of its success. After it vanquished Netscape, the software giant lost interest in browsers and stopped innovating. That gave Mozilla the opening it needed. "We built the right product at the right time," says Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, who has been in charge of Mozilla in its various forms since its early days. "This was partly determination and partly good fortune," she says. "We produced it when IE was terrible and people were happy to have an alternative."
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