The New Browser War is Good for Microsoft
Mozilla took a surprisingly proactive approach with Firefox last week, and neither move really had to do with Microsoft.
In an interview with Reuters, Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's veep of engineering, claimed that "In many ways it (Firefox 3) is much more stable than anything else out there." The story published two days after Apple released Safari 3.1. Firefox 3 is currently at Beta 4 with a five yet expected.
On Friday, Mozilla's CEO, John Lilly, roasted Apple for using its updater to distribute Safari 3.1 to Windows users. Yesterday, Lilly qualified his Apple attack, asserting: "It isn't about competition."
