Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Only Slightly Offtopic - Firefox Browser Released

Yes, this is a geek thing as opposed to a greek thing. But believe me, it is worth a look, if only for the tabbed pages and the nifty little icon of the crest () you can see next to the URL.

Yahoo! News - Firefox Browser, a Microsoft Rival, Fully Released

SEATTLE (Reuters) - The free Firefox Web browser, which has chipped away at the market dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, has been readied for a full release including new features designed to make it more stable, backers of the program said on Tuesday.

Faced with competition from Firefox, Microsoft's share of the browser market has declined to 92.9 percent from 95.5 percent in June, according to data released by Web usage tracker WebSideStory last week.

Beginning on Tuesday, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 will available for download for the Windows, Linux and Apple Computer Inc.'s operating systems.
You can download it from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/.

An example of the erosion of MS-IE dominance is the statistics for the Wonkette site. It shows approximately 70% IE and 20% Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape.
S&P shows 89% IE, 9% Firefox/Mozilla, and 1% each for Opera and Safari



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