Slate Article on Firefox

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. By Paul Boutin:

Scob didn't get me, but it was enough to make me ditch Explorer in favor of the much less vulnerable Firefox browser. Firefox is built and distributed free by the Mozilla Organization, a small nonprofit corporation spun off last year from the fast-fading remnants of Netscape, which was absorbed by AOL in 1999. Firefox development and testing are mostly done by about a dozen Mozilla employees, plus a few dozen others at companies like IBM, Sun, and Red Hat. I've been using it for a week now, and I've all but forgotten about Explorer.

Firefox is getting more mainstream attention every day thanks to IE's vulnerabilities and such. Maybe the tide really is turning. I think it's still going to take a lot more for the average joe user to make the switch. About 90% of brendoman.com's traffic comes from IE users. That's saying a lot since all the people I know that hit the site use Firefox or some other IE alternative. We'll see what happens.