Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers. Before its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004, Firefox had already garnered a great deal of acclaim from the media, ranging from Forbes to the Wall Street Journal. With over 5 million downloads in the first 12 days of its release, Firefox 1.0 is one of the most-used open source applications among home users. With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a small, fast, simple, and highly extensible web browser (separate from the larger Mozilla Suite). Firefox has become the main focus of Mozilla development along with the Mozilla Thunderbird email client and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the official browser release of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox has attracted attention as an alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer, since Internet Explorer has come under fire by the media for insecurity, lack of features, disregard for Web standards, and vulnerability to spyware and malware installation.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1660 At Gresham College, 12 men met after a lecture by Christopher Wren and founded what later became known as the Royal Society. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society)
1905 Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin as a political party with the goal of independence for all of Ireland. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%E9in) 1912 Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania)
1943 The Teheran Conference between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin began. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teheran_Conference)
Wikiquote of the day:
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." ~ Elbert Hubbard (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard)
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