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Browser Saturday [11.18.06]

It seems now that the new release dust has settled we have returned to the oneupmanship and how to grab more marketshare in the browser world.

THE PC GUY: Mozilla Firefox - NorthJersey.com

But there has been so much buzz around Firefox for so long — an estimated 70 million users call Firefox their premier browser — that I revisited this program that I last examined a year earlier, and gave it another spin early this summer. 

I haven’t stopped using it since.

Here’s why you may want to do the same.

Mozilla Firefox is a powerful browser that can undertake tasks while using only minimal amounts of RAM. It’s fast and efficient. You click a button, it responds instantly. In a field defined by milliseconds, Firefox is a speed demon.

The Secret of Firefox’s SuccessTechNewsWorld

Firefox Web browser co-creator Blake Ross said terminology is just one of the challenges for the future success of the free, open-sourced software. With the recent release of Firefox 2, the Key Biscayne, Fla., resident and 21-year-old Stanford University student sat down to talk about the future of the only Web browser that comes close to competing with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and how it’s shaping the future of the Internet. 

Report: Firefox 2.0 Trumps IE7 In Phish-FightingWashington Post

The newly released Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Web browsers both include new technology to help flag and block phishing sites — those authentic-looking Web sites set up by scammers to trick users into entering personal financial information. 

So how do the browsers stack up against one another in a no-holds-barred, anti-phishing slugfest? One third-party test that pitted the browsers against two week’s worth of phishing sites concluded that Firefox’s phish net may have fewer holes than IE’s.

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