Friday, September 17, 2004

Get Firefox!

www.spreadfirefox.com
www.getfirefox.com
http://tinyurl.com/63n7d

http://tinyurl.com/4kfcy

When was the last time you heard about the browser wars? Well, they're back. The reason: For the first time in more than seven years, Microsoft (MSFT ) is losing Web browser market share.

By the way, if you didn't know, a security loophole was found in the new service pack 2 that allows people to reedit a certain code in existing spyware in IE to work again! That's where firefox shines.

Popularity for Firefox has hit the skyroof with the new release of Mozilla Firefox V1.0 Preview Release, the alternative browser to Microsoft's IE, promising better security, tabbed browsing, extensions, and more!

Are you tired of swatting popups, chasing spyware, combatting identity theft and installing security updates you could set your watch to? You have a vision of the 21st century web and are ready to push it to the world, wresting control from a monopoly that has let it stagnate.

Over at c|net, Firefox enjoys the highest site rating possible and a staggering 92% approval rating. In the past three months alone, Internet Explorer lost another 2% of the browser marketshare—its largest drop in more than eight years.

With numbers like these, it's getting harder to ignore Firefox—and indeed, the browser is making its way into some very elite circles. Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal columnist that Newsweek called "the most powerful arbiter of consumer tastes in the computer world," told over one million WSJ readers today to dump Internet Explorer and get Firefox. Robert Scoble, renowned Microsoft evangelist, now sports a shiny new Firefox button on his weblog. And Firefox enjoyed 24-hour coverage on the very front page of Google News.

They are also intending to take out full page ads in papers and TV commercials. Looks like fire is gonna be the weapon of choice in this second coming of the browser wars. Stay tuned, everyone—there's lots to come.

[about the extensions, theres this cool extension i just found, its called bugmenot (bugmenot.com) and what it does is that it finds logins for sites like www.nytimes.com, www.fileplanet.com that require logins to access their downloads and finds anonymous and user donated id's and passwords to log into the site, without the hassle of registering, confirming, and all the fluff.)

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