[Fsfe-uk] Firefox in today's Grauniad

[Paul Mobbs]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1347674,00.html

Dambusters

Will this week's launch of a free rival to Internet Explorer pierce 
Microsoft's defences? Glyn Moody reports

The Guardian, Thursday November 11, 2004


Will this week go down in history as the start of open source's conquest of 
the Windows desktop? On Tuesday, version 1.0 of the free Firefox browser was 
launched - a program many see as the breakthrough in the battle to win over 
Windows users to open source software - community-created programs that are 
openly available for development. Firefox is also available for Apple's Mac 
OS X and the GNU/Linux platform.

Despite the 1.0 tag, Firefox is not new: it has a long and complicated history 
going back to the first mass-market browser, Netscape Navigator, via the 
earlier open source Mozilla. Firefox is Mozilla reborn (it was originally 
called Phoenix), and is aimed squarely at the non-technical user. It is 
sleek, weighing in at less than five megabytes; it is easy to install, 
pulling in your Internet Explorer home page and favourites automatically; it 
is packed with powerful features - a popup blocker, and tabbed browsing that 
lets you open several web pages within the same window; and, perhaps most 
importantly, it is secure - immune to the worst of the bugs, viruses and 
spyware that afflict users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. 

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