Mozilla Firefox gains on Microsoft IE
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Firefox is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer created by the folks at Mozilla. That group is made up engineers who worked on the original browser from Netscape.
Firefox has won many fans, who say it works as well or better than Internet Explorer, and is much less vulnerable to malicious hackers. In the last ten days, nearly two million people have downloaded the latest version of Firefox.
Guest: Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation
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