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"Originally an experimental branch of the Mozilla project, a new web browser was launched on November 9, 2004: Firefox 1.0. Its aim was to reduce Mozilla's bloat (if you remember those early days, the Mozilla Suite consisted of a web browser, mail client, news reader, irc client; it even had a web page creator called Mozilla Composer), and it was an instant hit among users and developers alike. \nFive years later, and Firefox holds a quarter of the browser market, and while technically not being the most popular (Microsoft's Internet Explorer still clings to that honor), it's definitely the most prominent browser, with thousands of plugins (add-ons, they're called), a busy developer community, and over 330 million users. As for the future, Christopher Blizzard over at hacks.mozilla.org has some idea about that; it can be summed up in three words: privacy, video, and mobile. From the blog post:\n\n\"Over the next five years everyone can expect that the browser should take part in a few new areas \u2013 to act as the user agent it should be. Issues around data, privacy and identity loom large. You will see the values of Mozilla\u2019s public benefit mission reflected in our product choices in these areas to make users safer and help them understand what it means to share data with web sites.\nExpect to see big changes in the video space. HTML5-based video and open video codecs are starting to appear on the web as web developers make individual choices to support a standards-based, royalty-free approach. Expect to see changes in the expectations around the licensing of codecs.\nAnd over the next five years mobile will play an increasingly important role in our lives, and in the future of the web. The decisions of users, carriers, governments and the people who build phones will have far-reaching effects on this new extension to the Internet and how people will access information for decades to come.\"\n\nMozilla plans to celebrate this milestone by throwing parties (oh no, not that again) around the world. The campaign is called \u201CLight the World with Firefox\u201D, and it will include shining the Firefox logo in cities such as Paris, Tokyo, Rome and San Francisco. Find out more at www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/en-US/."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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