# Campaign for Web browser raises $250,000 online in 10 days

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/11/05/campaign-web-browser-raises-250000-online-10-days/
- Published: 2004-11-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Mozilla Foundation has raised $250,000 in 10 days from 10,000 individuals 
to help promote the final version of its open source Web browser Firefox 1.0 when
it is released on 9 November 2004.**

The appeal was launched to pay for a full page advert in The New York Times promoting
Firefox, an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Its original target was
beaten quickly when it passed the $100,000 mark within three days. The spare cash
will be used for further promotional activity for the browser which aims to take
some of the market dominated by Microsoft’s browser.

Fundraising UK Ltd switched two months ago away from Internet Explorer to Firefox
as its machines’ standard Web browser, after experiencing a two-day interruption
to our work from a spyware intrusion. This occurred despite our regularly-updated
use of a firewall, anti-virus, and anti-malware products, together with the latest
patched versions of Windows and Internet Explorer.

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Critics of Internet Explorer argue that it has not been significantly developed 
for five years and is prone to security lapses. Microsoft does however offer regular
security patch updates for the product.

The US campaign has inspired a fundraising campaign in Germany to pay for a similar
newspaper advert, and a UK campaign is under consideration.

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