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Story: New York Times runs Firefox ad

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Posted by: wolf (Saturday 18 December 2004, 3:22 AM)

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At my workplace I installed Mozilla FireFox and use it instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer (the baseline standard on desktops) whenever I browse anything other than the internal web site. It was too easy to figure out the proxy server address despite their attempts to hide it from the users and with that piece of information MFF can communicate with the Internet. I timed the page load times of both MSIE and MFF on the same web page and MSIE was consistently slower.

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