Browsing: Firefox
Concerned about our site’s customers abandoning IE due to security flaws, I downloaded the latest Firefox release. The simple and streamlined browser is a result of Netscape’s Mozilla open source project. Although tabbed browsing isn’t exactly an innovation, Firefox just gets it right. There are a few necessary features like pop-up blocker and password manager, and other neat things like a ton of quick-to-learn keystrokes. Should Microsoft be worried? Sadly… probably not.
July 21st, 2004
Zach D.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
I must say I have converted.. I am using it right now. There is one app at work that requires IE but other than that I am exclusively firefox right now - the plugins are too cool.
There is a plugin I picked up called ‘don’t bug me’ and get this - if you go to a site like the NY Times that requires a subscription - you pull up the plugin and it will provide you with a user name and pw to use to get on the site - they come from a database of ones you can use somewhere out there.
The rest I have so far let you drag tabs around and what not.
Yeah I saw MS was worried as they had lost something like .2 % of their browser share which was at something like 99.5 % of the desktops.