June
18


In honor of today’s Firefox 3 release, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla. The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE’s blue “e” icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View.

The cake congratulates Mozilla on shipping Firefox 3 and expresses love from the IE team. Microsoft’s IE developers also sent a cake to Mozilla in 2006 following the release of Firefox 2, so this is clearly becoming a tradition.

Portal jokes aside, the cake is a very friendly gesture of goodwill. As we have noted recently, the Internet Explorer team could learn a lot from Mozilla. Closer cooperation between Microsoft and Mozilla on standards and web innovation would be a big win for everyone. But until Microsoft gets its act straightened out, Mozilla will be eating Internet Explorer’s marketshare in addition to cake.

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October
25


Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox web browser that has gained popularity as a free alternative to Microsoft’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer software. The Firefox 2 browser is a major update developed by an an international community of contributors and delivers the best possible online experience for people today.Firefox 1.0 was launched in November of 2004 and gained popularity with companies and young computer users and according to Jupiter Research, 44 percent of US companies with more than 250 workers allow their employees to use Firefox on the job as compared to 26 percent a year ago. In the two years since its release, the Firefox browser has won millions of devotees worldwide.

Localized versions of the browser Firefox 2 is available in 35 languages and tailored to work with Windows, Macintosh or Linux computer operating systems.
The browser can be downloaded from www.mozilla.com

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