“There has been a lot of buzz in the past few months over the
arrival of Firefox, the open-source browser published by The
Mozilla Foundation, and how Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is
starting to lose some of its share of the browser market to this
new competitor. Out of the ashes of Netscape, Mozilla has built a
solid browser that supports features such as tabbed views, Google
for native searches and direct support for RSS feeds. But business
users need to think twice about making the switch from Internet
Explorer, since Firefox lacks the ability to run Microsoft ActiveX
code.“When Microsoft integrated Internet Explorer tightly with its
operating systems and allowed the browser to execute Windows code,
it created a double-edged sword…”