Colleagues/ Firefox is on Fire! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Classic Overnight Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating) By RANDALL STROSS Published: December 19, 2004 [ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html ] FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting open-source software that draws upon the skills of hundreds of volunteer programmers, Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Firefox installs in a snap, and it's free. [snip] With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too. (Your children in college are already using it.) It is polished, as easy to use as Internet Explorer and, most compelling, much better defended against viruses, worms and snoops. [more]