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Firefox 3.5 Pulls Ahead of IE7
The browser world is a continuous battle for the top spot. And Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has always been the leader. However, according to StatCounter, Internet Explorer has been beat out by Firefox 3.5 for the month of December!
You can see the actual data in the picture above and if you look closely you’ll see that (yellow) Firefox 3.5 is above (blue) Internet Explorer 7.0 (click on the picture to see a larger version). The two browsers following IE7 are also Internet Explorer (IE8 and IE6), so overall Internet Explorer is still above Firefox by a land slide, but the fact that Firefox 3.5 is more popular than Microsoft’s largest browser, IE7, is definitely worth recognizing.
The rest of the standings are pretty much expected. Overall, the order is Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. But the fact that, individually speaking, Firefox 3.5 has the momentum to push IE7 out of the top standing shows how 2009 has been an excellent year for Mozilla.
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Firefox 3.5 Getting an Update Already?
Firefox 3.5, launched in early July, is already announcing an updated version. Mozilla announced just yesterday that Firefox 3.5 had several security and stability issues that needed to be addressed. So, Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5.1 yesterday to update some items and solve the previously mentioned issues.
Mozilla called the problems in Firefox 3.5 “critical” because of their potential. MacWorld reports that the problem was with “the software’s ‘Just-In-Time’ compiler used for JavaScript. A crash could result in an exploitable memory corruption problem that could, under certain cases, be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary code, like malware.” Details on the security problem can be found here.
Don’t panic that your computer is going to be hacked by some crazy attackers or a virus will get to it faster if you have Firefox 3.5. All you have to do is update to Firefox 3.5.1 here. Issues like this probably should have been found and addressed when Firefox 3.5 was in its beta stages.
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5 to Combat IE8
Firefox seems to always be striving to keep up with their big rival, Internet Explorer. With the release of Internet Explorer 8 just 3 weeks ago, Mozilla returned with an updated version of their current browser, now called Firefox 3.5.
The Mozilla Web browser is second most popular in the world, even though Firefox has the market share of about half that of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.5 has adopted a lot of the same features as Internet Explorer is so well known for. A new tab feature allowing you to manage your tabs easier than Firefox 3. Also like Internet Explorer, Firefox 3.5 offers a Private Browsing feature allowing you to conceal all history, cookie, search information, etc. for a particular site like your were never there. You can also manage your history much easier on the new Firefox by offering easy to use select history erase. Probably the most talked about improvement of Firefox 3.5 is its speed. Because Mozilla created a new JavaScript engine, they claim it has improved Firefox’s speed times three from Firefox 3 and times ten from Firefox 2.
Being available for Windows, Mac, and Linux gives Firefox a leg up on Internet Explorer (which is not available for Mac users). The new Safari 4 claimed 11 million downloads after just three days. Today, Firefox 3.5 hit 4.3 million downloads and still rising. That might seem like a huge number but Firefox has seen much bigger before. When Mozilla launched Firefox 3, it received 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours setting a world record.
Mozilla has done a great job at keeping up with its competition, but the new Firefox 3.5 isn’t much different from Firefox 3. Speed, privacy, and tabs are really the only new features worth talking about. Only time will tell if this new version is as great as Mozilla claims.
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