Join The Firefox 2.0 Launch Party
News The release of Firefox 2.0 comes less than a week after the official launch of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) browser. According to market share figures from Net Applications, one of the most widely used compilers of browser stats, Firefox...
[October 24, 2006, 15:55]
Firefox Continues To Gain Ground
News Firefox is most popular in Canada, with 16 percent of total browser usage there, compared to 12.81 percent in the US and 9.95 percent in the UK. With IE 7 and Firefox 2.0 approaching later this year, it will be interesting to see if Microsoft...
[May 16, 2006, 13:25]
Is Firefox Still Gaining On IE?
News Mozilla's Firefox increased its share of the browser market last month at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and other browsers, according to one set of statistics released this week. The worrying news for Microsoft comes in market...
[October 12, 2006, 16:35]
IE Trumps Firefox In Microsoft Safety Study
News Jeff Jones, security strategy director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, released a study last week comparing the flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's Firefox browser — unsurprisingly, he concluded that Microsoft is doing...
[December 4, 2007, 7:58]
Firefox's Rise Predicted To Continue
News Firefox isn't totally secure as no browser can be, especially if it runs on Windows, which is the world's top digital target. A fifth of the UK's 35 million business and home internet users are predicted to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer...
[January 27, 2005, 9:05]
Netscape Gets 'No Phishing' Sign
News Netscape claims to be the number two browser company -- after Microsoft -- but sources close to the company say that Firefox is gaining "really fast". The advent of Mozilla's Firefox browser, which has seen more than 20 million downloads since its...
[February 1, 2005, 9:00]
Mozilla Plans Thank You Surprise As Firefox Growth Continues
News While the group and its 10,000 donors wait to see their names in the paper, new numbers from Web site metrics firm WebSideStory indicate that Firefox's first month as a full Version 1.0 release boosted its market share by a point at the expense of...
[December 15, 2004, 7:35]
Mozilla Sets Sights On Firefox 3.0
News Changes made to Firefox 2.0 include an updated user interface, built-in anti-phishing, inline spell checking, improved tabbed browsing and search capabilities, browser session recovery and an updated add-ons/extensions manager.
[October 17, 2006, 17:05]
Firefox: The Alternative History
News But Blake [Ross, the creator of Firefox] and I were saying we need to make browser that doesn't target the current users - the biggest audience is IE users and they don't need an HTML authoring tool or an email client.
[July 19, 2005, 13:30]
Mozilla Downplays Firefox 2.0 Bugs
News A day after shipping Firefox 2.0, Mozilla on Wednesday largely rebutted two claims of security flaws in the latest version of the web browser. Mozilla shipped Firefox 2 on Tuesday, nearly a week after Microsoft released IE 7.
[October 26, 2006, 11:00]
The Browser Wars Are Back, According To Netscape's Founder
News This time, it's not Andreessen's former company Netscape Communications that's taking on Microsoft's Internet Explorer; it's the emerging popularity of smaller products such as Apple Computer's Safari and open-source browser Firefox, Andreessen said.
[October 7, 2004, 9:15]
Debbie's New Role, Home Movie File Server
Blog Behavior after the web site came back was slightly different and that was when the IE6/7 browser error message page stopped popping up when I used FireFox to just view the pages. I've gotten in the habit, as I suspect many others have, of opening...
[November 25, 2007, 17:13]
Thinking Of Ditching IE? Think Again
Talkback Then inform employees of Firefox as an option that's going to eventually replace IE and explain that for the time being they can continue to use IE as the default browser or switch early to FF if they prefer.
[October 18, 2005, 21:06]
Vista Struggles To Attract Enterprise Users
News In contrast, Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 virtually replaced Firefox 1.5 the same period after its release. The proportion of users on Firefox actually doubled during 2007, with 18 percent using it at the end of the year.
[April 3, 2008, 8:23]
Opening Up Opera
News Then they'll change the site so it works with the IE bug and then it doesn't work in Firefox and Opera. In some cases, sadly, they fix the site for Firefox and not for Opera. How does the presence of alternative browsers like Mozilla and Firefox...
[September 12, 2005, 16:55]
Video: Microsoft Learns A Web-standards Lesson
News Firefox and Opera, which are standards-compliant, have made amazing progress and Apple is also hoping to have an impact with its Windows-based Safari offering. In July 2003, IE owned more than 90 percent of the browser market and very few companies...
[July 19, 2007, 13:07]
Microsoft Rolls Out Red Carpet For IE 7 Test
News The company has also faced increased competition in recent years, largely from Mozilla's Firefox, which has grabbed a significant share of the market, though IE still dominates. With the latest version of the browser, IE 7, Microsoft is hoping to...
[April 25, 2006, 12:35]
Windows 2000 Users Miss Out On IE7
News But, some readers celebrated this news, claiming that it was likely to improve the market share of alternative browsers such as the open source browser Firefox. Cool, about 20 percent extra market share for Opera/Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox," was one...
[June 2, 2005, 14:35]
Mozilla Releases RC1 Of Firefox 2.0
News The Mozilla Foundation announced on Tuesday the availability of Release Candidate 1 of its Firefox 2 browser, but warned that its free, open source browser might have a few leftover bugs and suggests only experienced users and developers download...
[September 27, 2006, 10:15]
