Today as I was going through the Newspaper, I came across this article titled Internet Exporer Firefoxed. For those of you who dont get HT i wrote the whole article. Its on the front page. Well, now at least the Firefox revolution will catch some momentum in India. What say, Karan? Also, congratulations to all the winners at access, i missed the third position by 5 points, in JQ. Anyways, here goes.
“A software that 19 year old Blake Ross started building teo years ago has got microsoft worried. It is called Firefox, its free and beats the pants of Internet Explorer. Forbes declared it was better than Internet Explorer by leaps and bounds. The Wall Street journal is telling readers to dump Explorer.
The positive revies started ssoon after preview versions of the browser were made available for download around a year ago. These versions were meant for testing purposes and user feedback. But before you could say “Gates of Hell”, Firefox has eaten into the 95 per cent market share that Explorer enjoyed since 1999.
It has got so popular that when its last preview version was released a few months ago, more than a million copies were downloaded in less than 10 days. On Tuesday, mozilla.org offered version 1(i still have the preview, have to download it)-signalling the completition of a development cycle and a complete working browser.
USA Today quotes Ross as saying, ” I think we are going to seesome huge gains. The more popular Firefox gets, the more people will get to enjoy a modern web experience instead of battling problems all the time.” (RIghtly said!!!)
Ross and fellow programmer David Hyatt were part of the non- profit Mozilla Foundation, working on an open-source version of the bloated Netscape browser, when they decided to create a browser that was fast, secure, small and blocked anonyomous popups and ads from scratch.
Two years on, Firefox is one the most popular Mozilla Foundation projects along with the email programme Thunderbird.
The release of it version 1 means that you are going to see and hear a lot more about Firefox.”
Firefox Edge
Lets user decie when they will view popups
Limits fraud by clearly displaying true identity of secure sites.
Innovative tabbed browsing allows many web pages to load within the same window
Switchover is easy as it imports all bookmarks, passwords,cookies.
Therefore, Go get Firefox 🙂
Cheerio,
Manas
