This feature has been identified as a solution to the so called focus and context problem in information visualization (Ware, 2004) by other researchers as well, like in the famous hyperbolic tree browser (Lamping et al., 1995).
If you haven't heard of Mozilla, you almost certainly know - and perhaps use - its most famous product: the Firefox browser.
Mozilla, which is most famous for its Firefox web browser, co-ordinates the development of a number of open-source software projects through the Mozilla Developer Network.
This market dominance has allowed Microsoft to gather major profits while also enabling them to expand into other areas of the computer market including browsers (recall their famous antitrust case with Netscape) and software such as the Microsoft Office products.
Not only did PETA launch an anti Mario campaign in 2011 over his famous Tanooki suit, they made a violent, bloody browser-based video game about it - the spiritual predecessor, if you will, to their little Pokémon game.
The fact that Apple never supported it on mobile (and Steve Job's famous 2010 letter about that) only sped up Flash's demise, especially as modern browsers and HTML5 allowed browser vendors to replicate Flash's functionality without the need for third-party plugins.
The early Norwegian web browser Opera did almost everything better and faster than its more famous rivals: it was the first to have tabbed browsing, which was why I switched to it.
In the mid-1990s, Bill Gates' famous "The Internet Tidal Wave" letter highlighted the rise of the internet, browser-based applications and portable computing.
The conformal model is sometimes considered more aesthetically pleasing, at least in two dimensions: the famous Escher pictures of 2D hyperbolic tilings [Sch92,DLW81] are conformal, as is the 2D hyperbolic tree browser developed at Xerox PARC [LRP95].
Famous will also have to race to stay in front of the standard capabilities of mobile browsers like Safari and Chrome.
