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The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.0 today with much fanfare. Mozilla’s site has been down much of the morning, and other Mozilla related sites, such as their european site are already slowing down to a crawl.

With a article on the front page of the business section of the Boston Globe and a full page ad in the New York Times (and rapidly passing a 10% market share), Firefox is becoming one of the hottest products this year. Unlike the other hot orduct of 2004, Firefox is free.

One of the things I find most interesting is the fact that the Firefox start page, originally the project page, is now a branded version of the Google Homepage. This could be the extent of the GBrowser, the Firefox based browser Google was rumored to be developing.

Google also bought Keyhole, a satellite photography & mapping company that is used by CNN and other major news outlets. Sounds like Google is even going after Microsoft’s Terraserver now.