He writes about the tech biz for Wired.com's Epicenter blog . It’s a long road to a victory in the browser wars. Just ask Firefox . The open source browser which launched in 2004 just cracked the 20 percent threshold of the market share for November, according to Net Applications , pushing it a step closer but still miles away from IE. Recently a few new players have also thrown their hats in the ring, including Google with its much-hyped Chrome and the lesser known, Mozilla-based social web browser Flock , which released its 2.0 version this past October.