“But the common wisdom of the time was that open source was only for the geeks. “Open source was well known for developers,” says Mitchell Baker, who cofounded the Mozilla Project back in 1998 and is today the chairwoman of the Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Instead of coming from a megacorporation like Microsoft (or today, Google), Firefox was built by volunteers around the world who gave their code away for free.
While it’s unlikely to recapture such former glory, Firefox has been experiencing something of a renaissance, not just by improving speed and features, but by putting user control over privacy front and center.įifteen years on, it’s hard to imagine how radical Firefox was at the time of its debut. But Firefox quickly caught on, and eventually grew to command about a third of the market at its height in 2009. Given that it was the default browser on Windows, which commanded a similar share of the operating system market, its monopoly seemed like it could be permanent. When Firefox hit the scene, Internet Explorer had more than 90% market share, having felled Netscape Navigator.
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