Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Explorer.

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