The internet has undergone a quiet revolution today, as the innovative browser from the Mozilla Foundation, Firefox, has finally been released in a non beta form. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 aims to provide the end user with more choice in a market currently dominated by the Microsoft developed Internet Explorer.
Firefox 1.0 gives the end user the sort of innovation that Internet Explorer might have provided if Microsoft hadn't stopped developing it when they killed off all the competition. Features such as tabbed browsing, pop up blocking, integrated web search capabilities, built in add on support as well as many more features that users will soon wonder how they ever lived without them.
Over the last year or so Internet Explorer has slowly lost market share to other browsers such as Mozilla and Opera. We've noticed an increase in hits from users using alternative browsers, and it certainly is refreshing to see innovation in a market that had previously almost ground to a halt. So much of the end users time on the internet is spent using a browser that it seems almost a shame that new ideas and functionality had stopped appearing in Internet Explorer. Even if all this release does is spur Microsoft to develop their browser further then it's a result in itself.
Firefox is free, and weighs in at a relatively tiny 4.7MB download, which can be found on the Mozilla Foundation website. If you've never used anything other than Internet Explorer, maybe now is the time to give something else a try. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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