There is no doubt that Mozilla Firefox 2.0 will catapult it to the number one status in the world!!!
The release of Mozilla Firefox version 2.0 is imminent and become nostalgic about the rough and tough journey undertaken by the Firefox web browser would be a pardonable offence.
The biggest problem that Mozilla Firefox had to face was that it had to compete with a web browsing software application that enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the market. Since Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was being bundled with the Windows operating system and being offered for free, a web browsing software application that wanted to successfully take on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer would have to be a free web browsing software application. Mozilla Firefox went a step further. Not only was Mozilla Firefox a free web browsing software application but it was also an open source web browsing software application. Today, the success of Mozilla Firefox, as a free software application and as an open source software application, remains unparalleled. There are many people who point to the success enjoyed by the Firefox web browser as proof that there are free and open source software applications that offer excellent quality and superlative performance to all its users.
One of the biggest problems that Mozilla Firefox faced early on was the problem of establishing its identity as a web browser. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was so dominant that people had to stop using the word ‘web browser’. Whenever any individual had to refer to a web browser, they referred to it as “Internet Explorer’!!!!
Such was the advantage that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer enjoyed over any other web browsing software application. Mozilla Firefox had to dispel the notion that a web browser is synonymous with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
To counter IE, it was essential for Mozilla Firefox to offer features that would take people by surprise. It was not sufficient for Mozilla Firefox to timidly knock on the doors to attract the attention of the people. It was essential to break the door open to announce its existence to the world. Mozilla Firefox and did that by offering not just one but many revolutionary features in a single web browsing software application release. Mozilla Firefox offered something for every single surfer of the web. Further, Mozilla Firefox offered nothing but the best quality performance to all its end users.
Given the fact that Mozilla Firefox focused on simplicity and user satisfaction, millions and millions of users downloaded the Firefox web browser in the first few weeks of its release. This was exactly the start that any web browser hoping to compete against Internet Explorer would desire. That is exactly the start that Mozilla Firefox got.
It would have been very easy for the developers of Mozilla Firefox to relax on their initial success. However, that would have been a mistake because Microsoft’s Internet Explorer would have retaliated and retaliated hard. Mozilla Firefox has always followed the policy of overwhelming the end users with features & advantages and overwhelming the opposition by offering unheard of features. That is the reason why Mozilla Firefox continued to steam ahead. Just a year after the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 was released and the popularity of the web browser grew to unbelievable dimensions. It was only after the release of Mozilla Firefox version 1.5 and the tremendous boost in popularity that resulted from the release of version 1.5 that other web browsers sat up and took notice of this new competitor. Now that Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is to be released, Mozilla Firefox has placed itself as a worthy competitor of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Now, it is just a matter of time before it goes ahead and becomes the best in the world.
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