Word: firefox
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...Firefox is more or less free from these plights. For one, its relative unpopularity makes it an unattractive target for the spammers and spyware authors that write the code that breaks Internet Explorer. You might ask, however, if Firefox is unpopular now and we all take your advice, won’t it grow into a big enough target such that it stops passing under the bad guys’ radar? Fortunately the browser has quite a bit more going for it: Released by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, it is an open-source application created by people who like...
...quite a bit faster than Internet Explorer), or of some of its advanced features—like tabbed browsing—which have revolutionized the way in which I surf the web, but I think even more compelling than these things is to point out the enormous support Firefox has already garnered in its short history. After all, at the moment it’s my word versus that of Bill Gates, and by the time he was my age he’d already founded the company that would make him the richest man in America...
...alone in my recommendation. For one, 11 million people have downloaded the browser since its release. And I may very well be the last tech columnist in the world to jump on the Firefox-praise bandwagon (I’ve been using it myself for quite some time, mind you: I’ve just not been proselytizing). Over the past three months as the browser reached maturity and was officially released to the public, noted journalists at the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and hundreds of other well regarded publications have been singing the praises of Mozilla?...
...think of Firefox as a stocking stuffer, or a present for the oft-overlooked ninth night of Hanukkah. While you’re sitting around over break with nothing to do but dream about how relaxed you’d be if Harvard adopted a reasonable academic calendar, surf over to http://www.mozilla.org in Internet Explorer and download Firefox on me (isn’t my generosity laudable?): It may well be the last page you visit in Explorer. And if you like it, note that it makes a nice cheap gift to give to your friends, and one they?...
...beta.search.msn.com) designed to challenge Google for users and a piece of the growing search-related advertising market. While not as powerful as Google, MSN search is close--fast, accurate and nearly as comprehensive as its rival. The not-so-good: a new challenger arose with the release of Firefox 1.0 (download it at mozilla.org) a Web browser that offers real improvements over Microsoft's Internet Explorer. On Firefox, Web pages load faster, and there are an excellent pop-up blocker and a number of innovative features like tabbed browsing, which displays multiple sites in one window. More important, Firefox...