After the official demise of the Netscape browser back in 2003, it seemed as if Microsoft's Internet Explorer would dominate the browser market, well, forever. It was hard to imagine how or why anyone would invest time and resources to create a new rival. However, they did. Out of the rubble of Netscape was born the Mozilla Foundation, which took the code from Netscape's browser and used it to create the Firefox browser. Tuesday, Mozilla released version 3.0 of the browser, causing such a stampede of downloads that its servers crashed.
June 19th 2008