Fast Forward: Browser Users Can Celebrate an Independent's Day

Considering it didn't even exist 19 years ago, the Web browser has done pretty well. No other program on a computer can do so many things -- e-mail, mapping and calendars, to name a few -- thanks to all the Web services now available. And few other software markets offer as much competition as the browser business. , over the past two months. Choosing among these three non-Microsoft contenders -- all offering such core features as "tabbed browsing" (viewing of multiple pages in one window), Web-search shortcuts and automatic blocking of suspected hostile sites -- may not be easy. The major benefit in the new Firefox 3.5 (a free download for Windows 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5, and recent versions of Linux at http:/ mozilla.com) comes from new software to run the JavaScript code in many Web pages. Firefox's... [read full story]                    

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