[WEB4LIB] Re: what is firefox?

Morbus Iff morbus at disobey.com
Tue Mar 1 13:45:31 EST 2005


> FireFox is an open-source standalone browser developed by the Mozilla
> Foundation and often promoted as an alternative to Microsoft's Internet
> Explorer (although it also runs on Linux and Macs).
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

And, for the pedantics, it's officially "Mozilla Firefox", and Internet 
Explorer also runs natively on Macs, and with WINE on Linux, and once ran 
natively on HP/UX and Solaris, but MS took it down:

   http://randomfire.fierymill.net/archives/
      2005/01/04/internet-explorer-and-linux/
   http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
   http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2477

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