Happy birthday Firefox!

Six years ago today, (9 November 2004), Firefox 1.0 hit the servers.
Development of the browser was officially announced in April 2003 and originally called Phoenix -- raising the ire of the trademark holders. Renaming it Firebird raised the ire of the free database software developers, so it was finally branded Firefox nine months before it's inital release.
At the time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 was the dominant player in the browser market. A security nightmare and notoriously non-compliant with W3C standards, it nevertheless had a 98%+ market share and was considered unasailable.
What difference could a non-bundled browser that users had to manually download and install for themselves make?
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Happy Birthday Firefox!
Happy Birthday Firefox! Now go kick some Chrome ass!
Won't happen. Chrome is the
Won't happen. Chrome is the future