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

    Definitely heresy. You should be burned at the stake.

    =)

  3. 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')

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

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

  5. 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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