Speakeasy, a national US ISP based in Seattle has put a customized version of Firefox onto their new user CD’s. The founder and chairman of Speakeasy, Mike Apgar was quoted as saying: “We’re thrilled to be the first broadband service provider to adopt Firefox, taking our customers’ browsing experience to the next level. This special edition is just the first step in making browsing the Web better for our customers. We plan to continually enhance the browser with features that will benefit Speakeasy’s home, business and gaming subscribers.” A Mozilla spokesman said that this would be the first of many such roll-outs. You can get a copy of the Speakeasy Firefox release here, and you can read the full article here. I’m actually surprised that this hasn’t happened sooner. ISP’s are often the ones who pay when their users all have viruses and spyware infested systems, because it’s the ISP’s IP address that gets blacklisted if an infected PC is used as a spam relay, and also because 10,000 infected Windows machines chew up a great deal of bandwidth.

So folks, we have government security organizations, independent security companies, dozens of magazine reviews and now Internet Service Providers all giving Firefox the thumbs up and recommending it to their users. If your not using Firefox to read this, perhaps it is time you gave it a shot and find out what all the fuss is about.

This article was posted on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 at 3:19 pm