Open Source Browser Firefox Upgrade Released

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Mozilla foundation has just released a major update to Firefox, Microsoft’s biggest browser competitor.

The new firefox version is available for free here. The speed at which it displays pages has increased, and it improves the tabs used to view many web pages in one browser window. Microsoft has copied the tab feature in its latest release of Internet Explorer.

The open license Firefox is claimed to have close to 15% of the browser market, while Microsoft’s market share has declined by 10% in the last year, as shown in the Google Trend graph below Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox

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