Firefox Released [Nov 09, 2004, 10:21 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
One more morning Tech Bit here, as the promised official release of version 1.0
of the Mozilla
Firefox web browser is now available (thanks Frans). As noted in the press
release, "Development of Firefox has been driven by a desire for a more robust,
user-friendly and trustworthy web experience." Unfortunately, this web
experience may be a little lacking in robustness at the moment, as the site is
being pounded quite heavily.
Optimized builds are available here:
That's something lots of people overlook when talking about the advantages of open-source software. Anyone can grab the source tree and build it for a specific architecture, which can often provide some delta of improvement. With closed-source, you're limited to whatever the company provides, which is almost certainly something that runs on a base architecture for maximum compatibility.
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