{"id":133,"date":"2004-11-09T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-09T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T20:36:08","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Get Firefox!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today marks the first ‘official’ release of Mozilla Firefox. What that means is, we have reached version 1.0 – although most of the so-called pre-release versions have been perfectly usable for some time. For instance, I have been using a Mozilla browser of some sort for many years (Mozilla application suite browser, a brief period with Galeon, then Phoenix and Firebird etc.) and it has been very solid. Today is just a landmark day in the release cycle!<\/p>\n

The announcement appears to have picked up a bit of mainstream press interest: at the BBC<\/a> and in the Guardian<\/a> for example. The Mozilla community has received sufficient donations, following an appeal to users, to fund some full-page adverts in the New York Times – this is a rather unusual approach for community-developed open-source software. Hopefully it will generate sufficient publicity to make further dents into the damaging monopoly of Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n

So … go Get Firefox!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks the first ‘official’ release of Mozilla Firefox. What that means is, we have reached version 1.0 – although most of the so-called pre-release versions have been perfectly usable for some time. For instance, I have been using a Mozilla browser of some sort for many years (Mozilla application suite browser, a brief period… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}