{"id":9,"date":"2004-06-30T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=9"},"modified":"2004-07-19T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T04:16:50","slug":"spreading-the-good-news-of-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/spreading-the-good-news-of-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading the good news of Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you probably know, I now almost exclusively use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> to browse the web. However, Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/jgalloway\/archive\/2004\/06\/23\/163393.aspx\">still holds a vast majority<\/a> of the browser marketshare. The good news is that this market share is dropping &#8211; and Mozilla in its various forms are picking up the slack. While users of IE still outnumber users of Mozilla 7 to 1, the trend is in the right direction. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I helped continue that trend. During a meeting at work with a vendor we work with, the topic of Microsoft came up, and, inevitably, the various <a href=\"http:\/\/zdnet.com.com\/2100-1105-5253112.html\">security holes in Microsoft products<\/a>. This gave me a perfect opportunity to introduce Firefox, which the people we were meeting with took immediate interest in. I think I gained at least one convert right there, and the others were certainly considering giving Firefox a chance.<\/p>\n<p>As the convert said, open source certainly is a model that creates very good code.  Implied, of course, is that open source often doesn&#8217;t provide exactly what you want. However, when what it does provide coincides with what you need (think servers and browsers these days), its hard to go wrong going with the less expensive, more robust, and more secure open source solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While users of IE still outnumber users of Mozilla 7 to 1, the trend is in the right direction. Yesterday, I helped continue that trend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,5],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-technology","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}