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Mozilla Usage Doubles in 9 Months
TheBadger writes "Thanks to the success of Firefox, Mozilla now appears to have 14.9% of the browser share, double that of 9 months ago. Let this be a lesson in complacency."
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I installed it on two of my systems. That alone has got to push those numbers up significantly!
Complacency != Apathy
Whatever. Close enough.
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
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If you went with the first answer rather than giving respondents two chances, I'd say you would have had a lot more that answered, "I dunno, what's a browser", and another 30% that answered, "Windows."
Unfair! Many IE users are forced to spoof their user-agent strings to represent themselves as Mozilla/FireFox users to make themselves looks hip and socially conscious.
Or not.
DCMonkey
Complacency is just apathy in action ... no wait, it is apathy in inaction
Think global, act loco
*sighs at the dream of having that policy at his work, being able to be just as happy*
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My Mozilla has that but I have to right click on the desktop to get display properties, settings, display resolution, move the slider to the left, BEHOLD! And no bilinear filtering bluriness! ;)
When I've checked my personal site's stats (small gardening site...
400-500 hits a day, ehh?
Sounds like a:
M A R I J U A N A site to me
Sorry, lost my mind for a moment, please mod me down to preserve this fine news site from my abusive post.
Your hybrid is not saving the environment. Its purpose is to make you feel good about buying something.
Your name could be a candidate for the next firefox release.
Yeah, I see what you mean - clicking Reload is such a hassle!
er, um, Windowsupdate.microsoft.com????
I mean everybody goes there... Even linux geeks have to go there to get updates for their friends who are stuck on Windows and too virus-infected to get updates from via own computers.
Given that I've just proved that everybody goes there, I think that we could use that as a really good measure of what percentages of Web users use Mozilla vs IE.
No???
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Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Heheh, don't you love these die hards that are still out there using Netscape 1.x? All 4 of them! What great guys!
They make you use Amaya!
> If it's not on the CD, how are they supposed to
> download it?
wget --help
Rainer
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
I have recently instituted a Lynx only browser policy among my users. Now, we have no security problems, and out web traffic was reduced to only 5% of what it was before!
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
You need a bumper sticker: "Proud Parent of a Firefox User"
However you posting here, will make all the firefox users go log to the site to have a look and it will bump up the stat.