Five Years of Firefox

Being in the GMT+ time zones, sometimes you just have to celebrate events and anniversaries the day after it was suppose to happen because that's when the world starts trumpeting yesterday's events.

So here we have, a half-decade birthday of one of the open source community's proudest representation: Firefox.



Firefox has its impact in web browsing, partly because it's such an awesome program, and partly because it's ideas are so powerful, almost every web browser now has them. Things like tabbed browsing (I know FF is not the first to have it, but it's the first to implement it correctly popularise it), enhanced security and community-based add-ons. I still remember how much I was wowed by tabbed browsing, after having to wage a constant war against a gambolling mess of Internet Explorers windows.

I think I've switched to FF long before it was officially released five years ago, that is, the one with a version number less than unity. It was already so good then, though I had to bear with some occasional crashes. Honestly, I can't remember what I used previously... I think there was a time I used IE (it wasn't so bad then), as well as Netscape Navigator (but Netscape 6 sucks mega big time though... what's with the version 6 of browsers being so sucky?...)

Now the guys at Microsoft has emerged from their reverie and started moseying in the IE department, but I think it's a long catch up to do.