This month’s release of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 and last month’s release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 are just the beginning of a trend away from the unsecure, buggy, and relatively unsupported Internet Explorer that has dominated the free web browser scene. Ever since Netscape sat on its laurels after their 4.x versions, Microsoft slowly gathered steam to the 95% they once held. The recent 7.x versions of Netscape have just been ad-bloated versions of old and buggy Mozilla suites that are nothing more than a sideshow attraction. The opera browser, once the darling of the alternative browser scene, is a commercial browser with less capability that just cannot compete with “free.” Read On…
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This month’s release of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 and last month’s release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 are just the beginning of a trend away from the unsecure, buggy, and relatively unsupported Internet Explorer that has dominated the free web browser scene. Ever since Netscape sat on its laurels after their 4.x versions, Microsoft slowly gathered steam to the 95% they once held. The recent 7.x versions of Netscape have just been ad-bloated versions of old and buggy Mozilla suites that are nothing more than a sideshow attraction. The opera browser, once the darling of the alternative browser scene, is a commercial browser with less capability that just cannot compete with “free.” Read On…