New Browser Version - Firefox 1.0.4 Released

Posted May 12, 2005

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Last week two large security holes were exposed in Firefox 1.0.3 publicly. Who knows how long they had been there.

But like always, the mozilla team responded quickly with a new version to fix those problems in version 1.0.4.

The Microsoft loyalists have used this opportunity to point out how IE is better than Firefox because now it is “unsafe”, or was briefly. But the fact of the matter is, the new release came out within a matter of weeks, not months or years. The browser is so much better for those creative personalities who like to be able to customize everything and make it their own, and the fact of the matter is, more people are getting it for this reason.

I have seen usage statistics at somewhere around 25%. Now, granted, there have been other browsers that had a largely following and crashed. Time will tell if Firefox will do the same. But there would not be so many security flaws being discovered if hackers didn’t think that the browser was widespread enough to spend their time trying to find holes.

Face it. Firefox is going to be around for at least another year, if not forever.