Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend

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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Re:I see a trend! I see one!

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I see a trend in which people submitting slashdot items use skewed data with no disclaimers.

Amen.

The real numbers from general sites have Firefox climbing, sure, but still well within the single digits. And IE (all versions) is still over 80%.

Yes. I second this. Story submitters -- it doesn't do you or anyone any good to submit yet another story with misleading statistics about how much Firefox is in use, and it makes it more difficult to get real numbers.

Firefox is nice. It's a better browser than IE from a technical standpoint. Have fun using it. The market share will come, given continued superiority and time.

That being said, I have a longstanding policy of marking as foe those who write egregiously bullshit and misleading Slashdot articles, so this story author has won a place on my foes list. If you feel the same way, here's a link to your relationship page for him.