Firefox and more a birthday of sorts

It was on this day, 5 years ago, that we launched the Mozilla Foundation to provide a lifeboat for the Mozilla project as Netscape/AOL/Time Warner, Mozilla's former sponsor and primary contributor, was slipping into Microsoft's warm technology embrace and abandoning its 5 years of work on Mozilla.

With a new Mozilla Roadmap in hand, and just a handful of people, we had high hopes, but little mind share and even less market share.

A little more than a year later, we would be shipping Firefox 1.0 and changing the face of the Web.

For many people, it was only then, in late 2004, that Mozilla and Firefox began. But as we celebrate this year's 5th anniversary of the Mozilla Foundation, and 10th anniversary of the Mozilla project, it should be a good reminder that we've been slogging through it for quite a while and are only recently starting to see the rewards for those many years of work.

If you have been a part of this Mozilla history, today is a fine time to pat yourself on the back and to be reminded that you've made the Web a better place. If you have not, there's no better time to get involved and help Mozilla make the next 5 and 10 years even better.