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<p>Rodgercat: </p> <hr /> <div>After 19 months of development, two name changes and more than 8 million<br /> downloads of its preview release, the Firefox browser finally turned 1.0. <br /> <br /> The browser, based on the[http://www.free-download-firefox.net Mozilla firefox]<br /> Foundation's open-source development work, was made available for free download <br /> early Tuesday. <br /> <br /> Firefox 1.0 isn't significantly different from the preview releases launched <br /> in recent months. Mozilla changed its default start page to appeal to new users, <br /> but other changes involve minor performance improvements and bug fixes. <br /> <br /> The release could nonetheless have a big effect if prerelease trends propel the <br /> open-source browser into serious contention with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. <br /> <br /> [http://www.free-download-firefox.net Download Firefox here]:<br /> Windows users <br /> Mac users And the Mozilla [http://www.free-download-firefox.net firefox] Foundation<br /> is already cooking up its next moves to challenge IE's dominance. Now that it has<br /> the Firefox 1.0 milestone under its belt, the foundation has identified three areas <br /> for future growth and development: cell phone and small-device browsing, desktop<br /> search integration, and OEM (original equipment manufacturer) distribution. <br /> <br /> &quot;It's been a tremendous year, and we can't see anything but upside the way things <br /> are heading right now,&quot; said Chris Hofmann, the Mozilla Foundation's director of <br /> engineering. &quot;We're just starting the planning for the initiatives that are going <br /> to be important in the coming year.&quot; <br /> <br /> But Microsoft says it doesn't feel threatened by Firefox. Just days after the launch<br /> of Firefox 1.0, Microsoft executives defended IE, saying it's no less secure than <br /> other browsers and doesn't lack any important features. <br /> <br /> At a security roundtable discussion in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Ben English, <br /> Microsoft's security and management product manager, told attendees that IE undergoes<br /> &quot;rigorous code reviews.&quot; <br /> <br /> &quot;Because IE is ubiquitous, you hear a lot more about it, but I don't think that Internet<br /> Explorer is any less secure than any other browser out there,&quot; English said.</div>

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