internetnews.com: Spreading The Gospel of Firefox

"Three days after the preview release of Firefox 1.0 and more than 720,000 downloads later, the Mozilla Foundation is moving to a new phase in its online campaign to build more market share.

"Firefox, which traces its roots to the once-dominant Netscape Web browser, has been enjoying a period of popularity in recent times at the expense of Microsoft's IE, which has been plagued in recent months by security vulnerabilities.

"Version 1.0 preview adds some new features to Firefox .9, which was released back in June. Some of the new features include: live bookmarks, which lets users add an RSS feed to their bookmarks; security improvements, notably an anti-spoofing feature that highlights the Web site address and name when visiting a secure site; and a plug-in installer to make way for a number of upcoming plug-ins to the Firefox browser..."

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