I was an early adopter of Mozilla Firefox. I started using it on Windows before there was a version 1.0 and have stuck with it till now, on my Mac.
Back then there was an undeniably huge feature gap between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. There were a few other web browsers that never really caught on; I used MYIE2 for a while, tried out Netscape and Opera but finally settled on Firefox. Through the years, Firefox has not ceased to impress me with a slew of smart new features that make everyone’s browsing experience so much more efficient, and in turn enjoyable. Their market share grew rapidly, and more and more of my friends switched to Firefox from the piece of shit that was Internet Explorer.
For obvious reasons, Microsoft realized it needed to do something to stay competitive and released Internet Explorer 7 but I have so far not heard of a single person who uses Firefox that switched back to IE 7, therefore I consider it to be a failure. It was better than IE 6, don’t get me wrong, but Firefox’s open-source nature made it a clear winner in the web browser war over the past few years.
