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FIVE years ago last month, Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape’s crushing defeat at the hands of Microsoft in the first browser wars. In that first encounter, Microsoft used its monopoly in operating systems to clobber Netscape by bundling its own browser, Internet Explorer, with every copy of Windows. This strategy made IE the default browser for most Windows users and wiped out the early lead that Netscape enjoyed. As a result, Netscape’s share of the browser market plummeted from more than 80 percent in 1996 to less than 5 percent by 2003.
TRUST Steve Jobs to create a stir.
At the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this month, the outspoken Apple chief executive not only talked up his company’s iPhone, but also joined the new browser wars.
A group of zealots has devised a way to recruit Web site owners in a campaign to convert more users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to Firefox. The campaign, aptly called Explorer Destroyer, piggybacks on Google’s AdSense program, which promises to give Web site owners $1 for every IE user they convert to Firefox.
WHETHER you’re running on Windows of Mac OS, Firefox is an easy way to improve your Web browsing. On a Windows PC, this is a no-brainer. Firefox trumps Internet Explorer in security and tabbed browsing. Period.
If you’re still using Internet Explorer to surf the Web, do yourself a favor.
Point it to http://www.mozilla.org and download Mozilla Firefox for free. Then dump IE because Firefox is a safer, faster and more efficient browser.
