p2pnet.net News:- Mozilla’s Firefox is still giving Microsoft’s Internet Explorer grief, scoring heavily against the latter’s gaping security holes.

But it’s not only security concerns which are driving more and more disenchanted ex-IE users in Firefox’s direction. It’s a excellent browser well able to take on IE on merit alone.

It’s been a year since AOL cut off funding from the remaining members of the Netscape/Mozilla team and in the meanwhile, Firefox 1.0’s Preview Release has beaten the goal of one million downloads, with a record-breaking five million, SpreadFirefox’s me at work told p2pnet, going on:

“As part of the preparation for the big 1.0 release, the Mozilla Foundation is taking donations to help pay
for an ad in the href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1679395,00.asp">New York Times. The href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/3749">Official FAQ
has more information.

“Of course, in the interests of fairness, Firefox isn’t the only alternative to Internet Explorer. href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera, which is similarly href="http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/">
standards-compliant , is another popular browser..

“The group Browse Happy
encourages users to use anything
but Internet Explorer, under the very real premise that Internet Explorer is making browsing unsafe. Service Pack 2 isn’t the cure either, as a recent href="http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Sep/0214.html">Bugtraq
post proves. Browse Happy’s href="http://browsehappy.com/browsers/">recommendations include
Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and Safari, in that order.

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