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Switched Asks, 'What Is Firefox?'

by Thomas Houston on June 1, 2010 at 03:15 PM

Not too long ago, we dropped by Times Square to test the crowd's knowledge of Web browsers. Surfin' the tubes has come a long way since the early days of Mosaic, and modern browsers can play games, movies and all types of other media. They've even left the constraints of the desktop to leap onto mobile devices. Although Mozilla Firefox offers countless improvements over that old standby Internet Explorer (and holds a nearly 46-percent market share), we couldn't always get a straight answer as to what the browser actually is. "An animal that created an Internet Explorer?" Yes, exactly!

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