{"id":2833,"date":"2009-11-09T17:51:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:39:42","slug":"november-9-2005-firefox-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/2833-november-9-2005-firefox-is-released\/","title":{"rendered":"November 9, 2005 – Firefox is released."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Firefox-Cake\"Four years ago today, Web users everywhere that were looking to escape from the mediocrity of Internet Explorer were treated to the official release of a new browser, Mozilla Firefox<\/a>. Since then, It has since become one of the most popular Web browsers currently available, second only to Internet Explorer<\/a>, which, of course, ships as the default browser for Windows.<\/p>\n

Firefox started as an offshoot of the Mozilla Application Suite <\/strong>which, in turn, was built on the open-source code of Netscape Communicator<\/strong>. Since then, Mozilla dropped active development in favor of the standalone apps Firefox and Thunderbird, and the full application suite was spun off as the community-developed project, SeaMonkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Firefox is considered by most to be stable and safe, and is available in Mac, Windows and Linux versions. That compatibility, plus an extensive add-on architecture which allows users to customize Firefox, are the main contributing factors to its popularity.<\/p>\n

Even though I, personally, tend to stick with Safari<\/a><\/strong> for the vast majority of my Web browsing (especially in Snow Leopard, where Safari 4 is a\u00a064-bit<\/a> application), I still keep an updated copy of Firefox handy; every so often, I’ll find a site that pitches a fit over Safari, yet handles Firefox just fine. However, on the two virtual machines<\/a> (Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux) I have on my MacBook Pro, Firefox is the main browser I use.<\/p>\n

Many other people I know, both Mac and Windows users, use Firefox almost exclusively. Its compatibility with many corporate and online banking sites<\/strong> is far better than Safari (without changing user agent strings); I don’t think we need to go into its security advantages over Internet Explorer. ;-) I’ve also found Firefox to be reasonably zippy on PowerPC-based machines, often rendering more complex pages faster than Safari, so it may be a good option for you if you have an older machine.<\/p>\n

Overall, Firefox is well worth the download, even if you don’t use it every day. You can find the latest version (v.3.5.5, released late last week) at www.mozilla.org\/firefox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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