[Fsfe-uk] Firefox browser takes on Microsoft

[Paul Mobbs]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3993959.stm

Firefox browser takes on Microsoft

BBC News Online,
Tuesday, 9 November, 2004, 11:19 GMT 

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a serious rival in the long-awaited Firefox 
1.0 web browser, which has just been released.

Few people get excited when some new software is released, especially when the 
program is not a game or a music or movie player.

But the release of the first full version of Firefox has managed to drum up a 
respectable amount of pre-launch fervour.

Fans of the software have banded together to raise cash to pay for an advert 
in the New York Times announcing that version 1.0 of the browser is 
available.

The release of Firefox 1.0 on 9 November might even cause a few heads to turn 
at Microsoft because the program is steadily winning people away from the 
software giant's Internet Explorer browser. 

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