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Firefox Challenges Microsofts Aging Internet Explorer
FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9. Just over a month later, the foundation celebrated a remarkable milestone: 10 million downloads. [NYTimes via SpreadFireFox]
Mozilla's browser packs security protections and other welcome features that emphasize just how little Microsoft has innovated its aging Microsoft browser in recent years. [more]
I'm using Firefox and, so far, have only good things to say about it. It has tabbed browsing, absolutely blocks pop-ups, includes an excellent downloads manager and DOM inspector and has many more important features.
"You hear a lot of tales about people having very bad online experiences. Life can be better," said Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's president. "Our end goal is to have real choice and innovation on the Web."
However, Peter Torr from Microsoft, raises some concerns in his post, "How can I Trust Firefox?" [via Slashdot] The obvious reply is "How can I Trust Microsoft more than Mozilla?"
Nevertheless, Microsoft has already taken action by providing a patch that blocks Firefox downloads [Scrappleface - Satire]. "Firefox is a dangerous and contagious browser that could seriously jeopardize marketshare," said an unnamed Microsoft spokesman. "Unless consumers take action to block Firefox, it could speed up web surfing and return control of user computers to the users themselves."
Update: InformationWeek has an excellent FireFox review.
Posted by tim at December 20, 2004 10:15 PM
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