David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

Firefox becomes the default browser of 400,000 IBM employees

A few hours ago, IBM announced a major change in its computers: Firefox browser will now default on desktops over 400,000 employees.

A new pet who comes in the direction of hair loss a browser full speed. The Mozilla software is indeed stagnating since reaching the 25% market share in November. The latest figures even show a slight decline, puisquee Firefox is used by 24.30% of Internet users in June 2010. And despite the arrival a few months ago the bundle Windows screen (which lets you choose the browser).

Competition is fierce, and Chrome (Google‘s rival) has quite a success. It is also now the third world browser.

However, the choice of IBM stopped on Firefox. Why? The software:

- est extrêmement compatible avec les standards ouverts du web
- est open source et son développement assuré par une communauté qui n’est pas contrôlée par une entité commerciale
- est sécurisé
- propose des extensions qui peuvent être personnalisées par des organisations comme IBM
- est innovant et a forcé la main à la compétition pour s’améliorer

Source : Bob Sutor’s blog (IBM Linux and open source responsible)

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