Firefox turns five today. For some, they remember what the Web was like in 2004 – Internet Explorer 6 was the dominant browser, and had not been updates in 3 years, web technology was stagnating because of it.
Now, browsers are faster, and doing more – new standards are coming out (HTML5, CSS3, AJAX libraries, and more) – and while the techno-babble means little to many, it also means everything. It means websites that can do more, and do it faster.
It has also heralded other browsers becoming more popular. Five years ago, there was no Chrome or Safari, now web surfers have options to surf the web – and the web is getting better because of it.
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Correction, Safari has been in public use since 2003, it came with my first iMac I bought that year and Wikipedia states that it has been public used with the MAC OSX starting Jan of 2003. It has always been fast, but switched to Firefox for the most part since Google Maps and a few other sites worked better. I still, however, use both and absolutely hate IE.