:Personal Technology: Security, Cool Features Of Firefox Web Browser Beat Microsoft's IE
Personal Technology: Security, Cool Features Of Firefox Web Browser Beat Microsoft's IE Jan 7, 2005, 01 :00 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (5532 reads) (Other stories by Walter S. Mossberg)
"Meanwhile, other people have been building much better browsers, just as Microsoft itself did in the 1990s, when it challenged and eventually bested the then-dominant browser, Netscape Navigator. The most significant of these challengers is Firefox, a free product of an open-source organization called Mozilla, available for download at www.mozilla.org. Firefox is both more secure and more modern than IE, and it comes packed with user-friendly features the Microsoft browser can't touch.
"Firefox still has a tiny market share. But millions of people have downloaded it recently. I've been using it for months, and I recommended back in September that users switch to it from IE as a security measure..."