The world’s best browser
In the beginning of the web, browsing the WWW was quite uniform, 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 has an overwhelming market share.
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. That is pretty good for an all free open source application.
But what makes mozila fierfox so special? I think it is the great versatility of the program suite. 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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