Security: How Internet Explorer 6 Fares Against Mozilla Firefox?

December 22nd, 2005 On this website Internet Explorer users have snatched back their majority share. Internet Explorer users comprise 49.08 % of total users.

August 29th, 2004 Update: Mozilla group of browsers including Firefox now has proper support for applets. This post is no longer relevant.

November 23rd, 2004 I was just looking at the IE vulnerabilities vis-a-vis Firefox compiled by Secunia. Before going further you have to understand that IE has been much longer than Firefox and hence have been more extensively looked at for vulnerabilities.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

February 14th, 2005 I have started seeing sites with "Best viewed in Firefox". It reminds me of the days of "Best viewed in Internet Explorer".

July 1st, 2009 A new version of the Internet browser Firefox was released Tuesday, offering users more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards. The release of Firefox 3.5 (download)came as the open source browser is proving an increasingly formidable challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, which once had over 90 percent market share.

December 7th, 2007 Microsoft was the sole leading browser (all versions combined) in 2002-2003 with over 85% of market share. The earlier leader Netscape had by then sunk into oblivion.

December 19th, 2004 Here's some interesting observations from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks.

April 29th, 2005 A picture speaks better then thousand words. As far as technologists are concerned Firefox browser is a clear winner by a wide margin with 49% of the market share.

May 12th, 2005 A discussion on the update and how to install it.

January 18th, 2006 Search best browser on Google and Mozilla Firefox is returned as the first result. If you are into I'm Feeling Lucky search then it will directly take you to Firefox home page.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Despite some initial glowing reviews, Microsoft has been flooded with complaints about its new Internet Explorer 8 and has seen early users downgrade to the previous version, Information Week has reported.The software giant is hoping that its new browser will help stem a steady flight of surfers to rival products, most notably the open-source Firefox browser. According to the latest figures, Firefox now controls 22 percent of the browser market compared to 67 percent for Internet Explorer, which once enjoyed more than 90 percent of the market.

August 1st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Internet surfers have downloaded the open source Firefox browser more than one billion times, the software's distributor, the Mozilla Foundation, said Friday. The browser is the strongest current rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which once controlled over 90 percent of the browser market but has seen its dominance steadily eroded by Firefox.

December 7th, 2007 Cross-browser and cross-platform testing is a bane as well as a requirement for web applications. Consider Internet Explorer on Windows.

November 30th, 2005 Firefox 1.5 has finally been released with tons of new features. Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5: * Automated update to streamline product upgrades.