Why Firefox Could Still Be the Browser Story of the Year | Linux Today

Why Firefox Could Still Be the Browser Story of the Year

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2011

“As 2011 begins, browsers represent one of the most hotly
contested categories in all of open source. Open source browsers,
especially Google Chrome and Firefox, are leading innovation, and
are both on increasingly rapid development cycles. By every metric,
they are more useful, extensible and better performing than
Internet Explorer at this point. The past several days have brought
quite a lot of news about what to expect next in the browsers wars,
and while some are predicting a coup for Google Chrome this year,
in fact we may be about to witness the next big market share surge
for Mozilla Firefox.

“As we’ve noted, Firefox is rapidly being tuned for mobile
devices, and smartphones and tablets represent a huge market
opportunity for the browser.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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