Firefox and Chrome will sure change the browser landscape in the years to come. The playing field will change dramatically once Chrome gains a good traction. And we have Chrome OS coming up. So lets hope for more exciting things.

I'm not sure how much of IE & Safari's recent quality is dues to this competition. But if it is as much as I suspect, they already have.

An interesting result will be if we have 4-5 significant players + mobile variations + (maybe) netbook/tablet variations.

Having that many options does make the browser market seem healthier, but how does that make the search wars look?

- Perhaps its different because the profits it generates aren't equal to search.

Yeah, it took this long to get to a bill?? Not that it's a good comparison, but Apple had a billion iphone app downloads in it's first year.

by that logic, we should count all the Firefox extension downloads too