Over 10 million of people download Firefox 3.0 in just two days. Mozilla’s impressive effort to keep its servers alive it paid off and the launch of Firefox 3.0 is the most commented subject of the week, and not only in the tech world.

Firefox was officially born in November 2004, as the project of Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. In fact they began working an a new Internet browser since 2002 and initially Firefox was known as Phoenix.

However, due to the trademark problems with the Phoenix Corporation, the browser was renamed in 2004 as Mozilla Firebird. The new name did not last long because of the opposition from the community behind Firebird database and in February 2004 Mozilla’s browser has become officially known as Mozilla Firefox.

Firefox was born in a period when Internet Explorer was the undisputed leader of the market and its declared goal from the beginning was to offer a better, speedier and more secure alternative to Microsoft’s king of the Internet.

Many have thought that Firefox didn’t stand a chance in face of Microsoft’ heavyweight browser, but year after year and version after version, Firefox fought back, bringing new things, new enhancements, proving the power of the open source.

Of course, in May 2008, right before the released of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla’s browser has reached only 18,1 percent of the browser market, but let’s not forget that it had build its share by competing against one of the biggest software company.

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