Five years ago, on November 9th, 2004, we set the world on fire with the launch of Firefox 1.0 and the beginning of the modern era for Web browsers.
On that day, I was too exhausted to write a serious blog post about the occasion, but thankfully history has spoken louder than any words then could have.
Today, with somewhere between one quarter and one third of global browser usage, 330 million Firefox users have made a statement that the browser matters. That may sound uncontroversial today, but 5 years ago most people really didn't get it.
But some of you did and you not only made the choice to move to a better browser, but you spread the word to hundreds of millions of others and became the largest grassroots software community the world has ever seen.
There's a lot to celebrate today, but the people of Mozilla -- the thousands of you who made this all happen, you all are what I'm celebrating. Thank you for making such a profound difference in how we all experience the Web. Thank you for improving the lives of hundreds of millions of individual human beings.
