The movement from Microsoft Internet Explorer to Mozilla's Firefox
is growing by leaps and bounds. Yahoo released a beta version of
its Web browser toolbar for Firefox users, offering:
- Bookmarks
- News feeds
- Search and translation tools
The new Web browser toolbar also features the ability to search
a site, Yahoo Mail notifications and alerts and buttons for access
to the Internet Company's games, finance, news and sports sites.
Moreover, Yahoo plans to add an anti-spyware tool to the Firefox
toolbar very soon.
Firefox--Smart Alternative for Web Browsing
More than 23 million copies of Firefox have been downloaded since
its November 2004 launch, which has had an obvious impact on IE.
Depending on which Web site you read, IE's share of the browser
market has fallen anywhere from 88 percent to 90 percent of the
current market. Firefox sits at 5 percent and is growing. Additionally,
using Firefox will greatly decrease your security risk, as it is
well known that the Microsoft browser is very vulnerable to hacking
attacks.
For those of you who are already enjoying better Web browsing with
Firefox, take a look at this new toolbar http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox.
Currently, the Yahoo toolbar is only available for PCs running Windows,
but a Macintosh version will be coming soon.
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World February 10, 2005
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