your choice for internet browsing
In the beginning of the web, browsing the internet was a clear thing, everyone used Netscape Navigator. Then came the so called browser war. What was it? To make it short – Microsoft used it’s market share in the operating system segment to push its own browser – since then Microsoft Internet Explorer dominates the browser world.
But what happened to Netscape Navigator/Netscape Communicator? The company behind Netscape(before they were bought by AOL) initiated the development of an open source internet suite based on the code of Netscape. At first they could not rival Microsoft any longer, but it turns out, that the community has created something great!
Today,
mozila firefox is the only serious competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer. The next biggest competitors, OPera and Apple’s Safari only have fractions of the user base that Firefox or Internet Explorer have. The market share is rising continously and currently feierfox has almost 20 percent market penetration. Not bad for an all free open source application.
But what makes mozila fierfox so special? I think it is the great flexibility of the browser package. You can easily alter very much of the behaviour and there are plugins for almost everything you could think of. Anything that could be thought of to do with a browser is possible with firefox and it’s extensions.
In today Internet world, Firefox is a serious constant and leading the innovation. Only recently Microsoft has begun to react to the changes firefox brought, and once again microsoft is lagging behind in the development. Let’s see whether there will be a new browser war…
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