As the Firefox browser prepares to celebrate its 5th birthday, NetApplications reveals quite an accomplishment for the Open Source Mozilla foundation. A few years ago, Microsoft's standards-defiant IE 6 held 95% of the browser market share, having destroyed Netscape by using what was later ruled as monopoly tactics.
Firefox, however, has been gaining steadily since its introduction in 2005 but faces fierce competition, not only from Internet Explorer but from Webkit browsers like Safari and Google's Chrome which are very popular in the explodin
