From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

I think I'm about to have the 'opportunity' to change browsers -- machine
is displaying various 'old-timers' symptoms.  I'm currently using NS7 for
browsing and mail....any suggestions for a mail client to go with Firefox?

Doug

On Thu, 03 May 2007 19:52:08 -0400, mike  wrote:

>
>http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/02/1177788202450.html
>
>===
>When the Firefox web browser was launched in 2004, the then head of
>Microsoft Australia Steve Vamos was quoted as saying he did not believe
>it would pose a real threat to Internet Explorer's market share.
>
>He said the additional features Firefox offered, such as the ability to
>view multiple web pages within "tabs" in a single browser window, were
>not necessarily what consumers wanted.
>
>Mr Vamos, who was recently appointed vice-president of Microsoft's
>international online services group, must surely be eating his words
>now.
>
>Firefox continues to claw users away from IE - the most recent measure
>by web analyst NetApplications shows Firefox has a worldwide market
>share of 15 per cent, compared with 78 per cent for IE.
>
>Recent measures from another firm, XiTi Monitor, say Firefox enjoys an
>almost 25 per cent share of the market in Oceania - larger than its
>share in Europe, Asia and America.
>
>It has clearly caused a massive dent in the dominance of the Microsoft
>browser, which once controlled more than 90 per cent of the market.
>
>And while Microsoft questioned the benefits of tabbed browsing in 2004,
>it finally adopted the feature with the release of IE7 in October last
>year - the first IE update in five years.
>
>In the same period, Mozilla, the organisation behind Firefox, released
>two versions of its browser and is already gearing up for the release of
>Firefox 3 later this year....
>===
>
> /m

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