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Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend

Posted by timothy on from the expected-but-still-nice dept.

carbolic writes "The Firefox browser is ramping up as fast as Internet Explorer is ramping down. According to these stats posted from the Engadget logfiles, IE has dropped to 57% of all browsers used to visit the site, while Firefox is up to an amazing 18%! The Engadget stats reflect an early-adopter consumer crowd and backing those up, this chart from w3schools shows the same trend. I guess CERT's recommendation and a mature product are finally paying off for the Mozilla project. Less than 2 years ago, IE had a 95% lock on the market. Anyone else see a trend here?"

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  1. Re:Workaround by Compact+Dick · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not surprising, considering the theme was released on, and I quote the page, "Released on December 31, 1969".

    Seriously though -- a port should be in the works. Hang on till then :-)

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  2. Re:As much as I'd like this to be true... by jkrise · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think many IE users are setting their browsers to the "Behave like Firefox" option!

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  3. Re:I see a trend! I see one! by djmurdoch · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real numbers from general sites have Firefox climbing, sure,

    That's a trend you know. In fact, it's the same one the article was claiming: Firefox usage is rising.

    Now what was your point again?

  4. Re:Not more people by ischorr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Definitely heresy. You should be burned at the stake.

    =)

  5. Re:C'mon by Epistax · · Score: 5, Funny

    As I hinted at in another post, the problem would be seen by a CNN/Gallup poll after the respondents say:

    "Which web browser do you use?"
    The Internet 50%
    The Web 15%
    Explorer 10%
    Internet Explorer 10%
    Mozilla/FireFox: 12%
    Other 3% (Including 1.2% who stated 'www')

  6. Re:Firefox desserves this... by Lispy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, IE was at 4.0 before it was barely useful. ;-)

  7. Re:Firefox desserves this... by ceeam · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder whether MSIE 6.0 is at 1.0 yet. :)

  8. No, Safari is winning: here's the proof by michaeldot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Using my highly scientific survey accurate to within 3 standard deviations, I monitored TWO sites:

    www.iLoveMac.com, and
    www.iAmAMacFanboyAndProudOfIt.com, and found:

    99% Safari
    1% other

    I think that's all the proof anyone needs!

  9. Wacky browsers by HermanAB · · Score: 2, Funny

    my Firefox identifies itself as vi on a ZXSpectrum and I never have problems with sites refusing me entry.

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  10. Re:As much as I'd like this to be true... by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft's site can probably claim higher numbers of IE users.

    I can see the press release now: "According to the statistics for windowsupdate.com, 100% of the world is running Internet Explorer"

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  11. Re:Hmmmm by strictfoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    maybe you should actually go to the site and learn how to make hyperlinks

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  12. Firefox? by Luveno · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm browsing with Spacetuna.

  13. Re:As much as I'd like this to be true... by chad_r · · Score: 2, Funny
    Netscape 4: below 1% and falling
    Arggggggh! Can we just take away the internet connection for these people already??
  14. Re:Early Adopter, techie trend by BandwidthHog · · Score: 2, Funny

    62 + 12 + 6 = 80%, which also tells us that 20% of your visitors aren't using a computer.

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