I Don't Believe in Imaginary title writes "Mozilla has turned 10 today. It's been a long, strange trip from being the once-dominant browser, going down to almost nothing, and returning to commodity like 25% of the browser market. 'With a sliding market share, Netscape decided to focus on its enterprise oriented seconds and gave away the browser but most importantly allow volunteers to work on the product. Mozilla was nothing but Netscape's user agent (the name a browser uses to contact the web server), a reminder of the first Netscape code name. Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL would buy Netscape and cyberspace Explorer would get up to 90%+ of market share leading to the worst period in web browsers' history where modernization was a niche for Opera and IE remixes users.'"

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