Firefox
Microsoft Required to Offer Alternative Browsers in EU Case
Oslo, Norway -- December 16, 2009 -- Opera Software today announced that Web users are the winners upon the completion of the European Commission’s investigation into Microsoft’s browser-bundling practices. Microsoft will now offer users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a screen presenting a choice of Web browsers.
In December 2007, Opera Software urged the European Commission to investigate Microsoft’s abuse of its dominant market position and the company’s bundling of Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.
Network Advertising Initiative Releases Consumer Opt-Out Protector
Beta Release of New Firefox AddOn Helps Users Protect OptOut Choices
Washington DC -- November 5, 2009 -- The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) today released a beta version of the NAI Consumer Opt-Out Protector, a Firefox Add On that allows users to protect their behavioral advertising preferences by preventing the accidental deletion of NAI members’ opt-out cookies.
Apple Announces Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in 3 Days
CUPERTINO, CA, June 12, 2009 -- Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world’s fastest, most innovative browser and is built on the world’s most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript nearly eight times faster than IE 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3.


