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COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
Byline: Julio Ojeda-Zapata
ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Gary Vollink, who works at an Edina, Minn.-based tech firm, is on a quiet crusade to convert his co-workers.
He wants them to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to the increasingly popular Firefox.
This upstart browser has seen a surge of IE converts, with downloads exceeding 5.6 million the first two weeks after being made available on the Internet. This is partly due to well-publicized security problems involving IE and partly because Firefox boasts features not found in the market-leading Microsoft browser.
Firefox, long available in experimental form, was officially released Nov. 9 (see www.mozilla.org) in versions for Windows, Mac OS X and other operating systems.
While Vollink doesn't expect his colleagues at CorVu North America to abandon IE on their Windows XP PCs _some Web sites won't...
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