Reprinted from: China Computer Education Recently, a browser named Mozilla Firefox has been out of the head - not only see all kinds of web browsing safety news, evaluation, but also make Microsoft's Internet Explorer embarrassment. When you see this comment, Firefox has released its 1.0 official version. What is the new generation of the new generation, so that it shouted the slogan of the challenge IE from the date of his birth? This is a causal life, or a long-awaited revenge plan? Maybe we can find a little answer from the past and present students of Firefox. Front edge: Netscape "Husp" To truly know Firefox, we have to mention Netscape this late hero. Perhaps use "late hero" to describe it is already lifting it, in fact Netscape has almost completely withdraws from the historical stage. Review the 10 years of Netscape was born, we can use a sentence to describe its entire course: IE today is Netscape yesterday, Netscape has not today and tomorrow. For Netscape's demise, the comments have been accustomed to blaming the "bundled" monopoly of Microsoft. In the object, in addition to this reason, it is still two points: First, the last version of Netscape is updated from the user's needs, and the pursuit of "big and complete", often "starting to take few seconds until the system crash"尴尬; the other is that AOL acquires Netscape to kill excellent software. In fact, if we carefully recorded the Software of AOL, you can see AOL is a "Bermuda", whether it is ICQ or Netscape, or even WinAmp, none is not in the hand of AOL and mediocre. WINAMP's original author has been angry after leaving AOL, "" AOL 80% of people are idiot. "Although Netscape is dead, it is finally buried for the current browser before" Dinning ". Take the film - through the netscape hand, the open source organization Mozilla Foundation was born. Although Mozilla has proven to be "helpless A Dao" because of too bloated, it has been hatched by this product known as "technology leader". Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox is inserted, and the banner of "recovering river mountains, against Microsoft Security" is highly fluttered. This life: Unintentional to Liu Yin Whether Mozilla or Firefox, where the source code is in this sense, in this sense, Firefox should repay Netscape's "Nursery", and the best way is "Continue with Microsoft" Fight down. " However, the reason for the rise of the firefox, which is responsible, does not come from itself, but Microsoft's IE is in trouble. This year's IE is "unfavorable year", IE monopoly lawsuit lost, viruses, vulnerabilities continued ... Finally, "Rongdend" has "2004 global 20-year-old safety hazard list", and finally even Internet experts have begun Book IE account, they have repeatedly suggested that netizens stop using IE, turn free advertisements for Firefox, and even some netizens have summed up the so-called "101 reasons for using Firefox rather than IE." Since the explosion of Download.ject virus, the market share of IE began to "steadily decline", from the original 95.6% to 93.7% of today; after the IErame vulnerability broke out, because IE has not provided relevant patches, we get Solution There is only one suggestion - please use a non-IE core browser, Firefox users are blessed.
The old generals of the Mozilla Foundation did not idle. They grabbed this unbained good opportunity. He spare no effort to grasp the Firefox RC scheme, starting a very vast "Firefox Promotion Plan", one of which is " New York Times "on the publication of the advertisement. IE internal affected, experts' promotion, Firefox itself, these three factors have created "firefox whirlwind". From Firefox download rate we can see this return: 0.8 version downloads 3.3 million in 4 months, 0.9 version downloads 6.5 million in 3 months, 1.0PR version downloads 5 million times within 1 month! In the case: the life of IE is the development of fashion morning Firefox is being present, and it seems that everything is in progress. However, let's take a closer to see that Firefox is going to subvert the browser market, or even a flat-up level is not an easy task. In recent years, IE has made a lot of updates in Windows XP SP2 in addition to patching some vulnerabilities. If Firefox continues the moment, once Microsoft really feels a threat, it will increase investment to IE development. In Microsoft IE Developer Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
) On, we can already see a little bit. Even if the official statement is that the IE will be largely updated in Longhorn, the time left to Firefox is only a short two years. The version of the browser has been made, and Firefox, which has been "blowing bird" will become more and more threats from hackers. "Do not use the 'trusted area' security model used by Microsoft to reduce the possibility of viral attacks. The advantage will gradually lose, this point can be annotated from the vulnerability of browser such as Firefox. Advocate open source, free Firefox can be well-understood. In fact, "Open Source" is a "double-edged sword", and there is a vulnerability, although many programmers can fix it in time, these problems are more easily utilized. There is an unknown factor in front of Firefox: Firefox is seeking to integrate with GNOME OS, walking IE old road, can this integration win a good future for Firefox a wonderful future or to another misunderstanding? This is still to be observed. Interestingly, Ben Goodger, which is currently responsible for Firefox development is a faithful user of IE for a long time. Edit: Compared with IE, Firefox has better security features, and more standard web interpretation specifications (especially in the support of CSS and PNG, IE has always disappointed), but in the case of IE Firefox is not satisfied with the explanation of some web pages, and the web designer has to do special treatment in order to meet the interpretation of IE, this has also caused us to use Firefox inconvenience. For ordinary users, no matter whether it is using Firefox, Firefox existence is beneficial to us, and competition will have progress.
