Firefox ate IE's lunch. Really, it was Firefox who begun a revolution in a web-space. At some point Mozilla rebranded their browser suite named 'Mozilla' into S

Firefox ate IE's lunch. Really, it was Firefox who begun a revolution in a web-space. At some point Mozilla rebranded their browser suite named 'Mozilla' into Seamonkey, and started Firefox as a separate product (not a part of suite of apps like mail client, IRC client, web browser, and calendar). It was around 2005, though I believe wikipedia can tell the precise date. The result was a rapidly growing market share, I remember celebrating this as the end of IE domination. I was linux-user then and IE domination and IE-only sites was a pain in the ass. Then in a couple of years Chrome emerged. It was a way simplier than FF, it had no firefox's complex dialogs to customize a lot of things. Chrome helped Firefox to eat the rest of IE market share, and then started to eat into Firefox market share. It was like this. Funnily that people doesn't remember that, believing instead that it was Chrome who overthrown IE. It was Firefox who changed web to a point when web-developers couldn't ignore non-IE users, and had to check compliance with standards, not just check whether their sites works with IE.