Firefox Could Give IE A Run For The Money
43520
By the day of its release last week, Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox 1.0 had already garnered 3% of the Web-browser market. Not bad for a new product competing directly with Microsoft&#39;s widely entrenched Internet Explorer.
229768
With the elegant Firefox, the open-source camp is mounting a full frontal attack on Microsoft's long dominant Internet Explorer.
613742
While Firefox wins rave reviews for its browser technology and appears ready to chip away at Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) dominant Internet Explorer market share, the open-source browser is probably a long way off from unseating IE in the enterprise.
404961
Microsoft's browser dominates the Web, but it is facing new competition from Firefox, an open-source project by a new generation of software developers.
272342
As part of our Browser Smackdown, here's a close-up look at how Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9 and Safari 2 handle popular browsing features and functions.
203461
By Doug Stanley  Internet Explorer 7, the first major overhaul of Microsoft's Web browser since 2001, may knock your socks off if you've been using its predecessor exclusively.
548385
For those who remember the browser wars, Microsoft seems to be missing in action from the latest battle. In recent months, upstart browsers such as Firefox and Opera have lured more than 10 million users away
303330
Microsoft&#39;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.
221126
The Firefox browser offers superior security features over Internet Explorer -- and as long as IE drives more than 90 percent of the world&#39;s computers, hackers will continue to make it a target.
7995
A new front has been opened in the long-dormant browser war, with an open-source program called Firefox aiming to challenge Microsoft&#39;s dominant Internet Explorer.
528668
It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards. &nbsp;At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike.
38088
The Motley Fool - Firefox is catching fire -- pardon the pun -- and for good reason. Web surfers looking for a reliable alternative to Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) Internet Explorer have been busy over the last month downloading the new version of the Web browser. The Mozilla Foundation, a network of programmers jointly developing open-source technology, reports more than 8 million people have downloaded the program since early November.
693115
Internet security may be priceless, but people who want a safer web browser with their older versions of Windows will pay $239. Until last month, the software giant&#39;s security-challenged Internet
599182
Mozilla&#39;s new Firefox Web browser can make believers even out of loyal Internet Explorer proponents. By Scot Finnie. This is an extensive update of Scot Finnie&#39;s review of Firefox that originally ran on November 17, 2004.
32814
Apple's Safari could bring richer colors to Windows browsers, but Firefox soon will help expand the gamut, too.
197950
London: Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer(IE)is facing some stiff competition from Firefox as web analysts have revealed that the proportion of surfers using Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer (IE) has dropped to below 90 percent.
4488
The jury's still out Review It's long past time to bother telling anyone how much better than IE Firefox is. Faster, smaller, more responsive, with tabbed browsing and useful extensions galore. It's also lot more secure than IE, partly because it's open source, and particularly because it's not integrated with the underlying OS.â¦