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CNET News: Mozilla Burns to Prove Firefox Worthy

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 15, 2004

“After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0
release with new challenges in converting IE users.

“The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox Web browser, an open-source
alternative to Microsoft’s market-dominating Internet Explorer, has
been attracting new users at a breakneck pace. Even before reaching
its 1.0 milestone, it has doubled its downloads every four months
for the past eight. The last two months alone saw nearly 5 million
downloads of software…”


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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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