![]() I don’t dismiss them, but we are concentrating here on the big alternative. There are others: Opera is carving out a niche on hand-held and gaming platforms, while various Gecko-based browsers follow the Firefox protocols. Mozilla itself stayed alive, however, and three years ago came up with Firefox, the Third Way. This internecine cannibalism led to all kinds of lawsuits and the ultimate demise of Netscape. The Mozilla design led to Netscape, the most popular browser of the late 90s, which was in turn killed by IE, the browser Microsoft cobbled together from bits of – you’ve guessed it – Mosaic source code. Last week I showed how easy it was to change your browser to Firefox, a customisable, personalisable (mmm, such attractive words) web browser that offers much more control over your web life than the standard, bundled applications Internet Explorer (IE) and Safari, for Windows and Mac platforms respectively.Ī little history might interest you: Firefox is the work of the Mozilla Foundation, which was founded years ago (in digital time) as part of an attempt to “kill” the first universally successful web browser, Mosaic (Mozilla is a portmanteau word derived from “Mosaic Killer”). Themes are all very well, but it is extensions that offer the real powerhouse possibilities We looked last week at changing Themes via Firefox’s Tools-Add-Ons menu. “Why you should download a Seamonkey – The Guardian headline Column published on Saturday December 15th 2007 in The Guardian ![]()
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