'The Firefox explosion'

If anyone at your house is interested in software code, you might find this Wired magazine story as interesting as I did. And it really is a story - as much about what young programmers (one Firefox software writer started at 14) can accomplish as about the alternative browser's sudden explosive growth. "Even in beta, Firefox's clean, intuitive interface, quick page-loading, and ability to elude intruders elicited a thunderous response," Wired reports. "In the month following its official November launch, more than 10 million people downloaded Firefox." Much more interesting, though, are the two people "most responsible for the browser's success ... Blake Ross, an angular, hyperkinetic 19-year-old Stanford sophomore with spiky black hair, and Ben Goodger, a stout, soft-spoken 24-year-old New Zealander." Here's Firefox's download page at the Mozilla Foundation's site.