Dare to Explore: Microsoft's Web browser has a rapid rival in Firefox

It was interesting to find this article in one of our local papers today. It is an introduction to Firefox for the non-technically oriented who are just hearing about it for the first time. I think it's a pretty good article. It is fascinating for us techies to remember that while Firefox is old hat to us, it is brand new to the public at large.

P.S. After re-reading the article, I do take exception to one point. I hardly ever have to open IE -- maybe once every 2 to 4 weeks. Of course that varies with what Web sites a user frequents. I spend hours and hours each week surfing in Firefox alone and I'm making no particular effort in order to do so. Most of the time, I'm not aware that I'm using an "alternative" browser. In fact the only time I have opened IE in the last few weeks was for Windows/Office Updates, and to download Firefox to a computer that only had IE installed.