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Mozilla's Advantages over IE
Posted by Paul Szynol on Thursday, December 12 @ 15:14:35 EST OpenSource
With the release of Internet Explorer 6.0, Microsoft's browser captured an increased market share, and surpassed its cardinal competitor--Netscape Navigator (Internet Explorer 6.0 Leaves Netscape Behind). Christopher Blizzard, one of Mozilla's developers, hopes Mozilla will attract some of Netscape's lost users.

The browser, which provides open source technology adopted by other browers (Chimera -- a Mac OS X browser -- Gecko, Netscape and Phoenix all incorporate Mozilla technology), offers several advantages, Christopher Blizzard says. First, the browser provides its users with superior cookie, image and pop-up control. Second, because Mozilla is open source, corporate developers can modify its code to suit their companies' unique needs. Third, Mozilla stays away from proprietary tags, and closely follows W3C standards. Finally, according to Blizzard, "Mozilla also features the world's best CSS (cascading style sheet) support . . . Support for other Web standards is also equally excellent, including support for all the various versions of HTML, XHTML and … XML."

The latest version of Mozilla is 1.2.1, and is available for download here.

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