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Firefox Shooting For 10 Percent
Random BedHead Ed writes "An
article on ZDNet Monday features an interview with Bart Decrem, the Mozilla organization spokesman, who says that by the end of next year they expect to have 10% of the browser share. "We have the momentum," he says. He attributes some of the success to faster browsing and a lack of software bloat, and suggests that other open source projects might see similar success if they trim features. The article also quotes some very interesting figures from ZDNet's own web servers. About 9% of ZDnet visitors were using a Mozilla browser in February; now in it's at 19%." The average for OSTG overall is about 30%.
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Eastwood hands him a roll of toilet paper.
...or maybe not.
I got 100% Mozilla on my webserver logs! Of course my website is callled "localhost"...
MS Internet Explorer 27.6 %
Mozilla 7.2 %
Opera 7 %
Netscape 3.2 %
Safari 1.6 %
Unknown 0.7 %
Konqueror 0.3 %
WebCopier 0 %
But Jolt Finder does not see a lot of traffic, I was thrilled when Firefox overtook Explorer. But then again, I use Firefox, and obsessivly check the statistics waiting for a slashdotting.
There are two kinds of fool. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.
Why not let MS IE blog know what you think. After all, I'm sure that MS IE blog would love to hear your opinions. Go on, you know you want to talk on the MS IE blog. Why not give MS IE blog a whirl?
My website's percentages (I would say a somewhat stereotype independent website):
;)
2003-2004:
MS Internet Explorer 1 %
Netscape 0 %
Mozilla 99 %
Opera 0 %
Safari 0 %
I guess I'm the only one who finds what I have to say interesting.
JS alerts are just as annoying as pop-ups/unders. (more?)
Instead of people switching browsers, they would most likely switch sites to browse on Fridays.
Might be fun to rename IE to iexplore.bak and FF to iexplore.exe
:)
I'd prefer renaming iexplore.exe to iexplore.pos
After linking on /., I have a fleeting suspicion that your Firefox usage stats are about to go through the roof :) And the server will likely need a hip replacement after the /.'ing.
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Reading the text you can almost imagine Redmond concocting a cunning plan to distract 19-year-old Blake from his Firefox duties, involving free tickets to a tropical island with Natalie Portman. And daily hot grits via room service.
That would be the worst possible thing for Microsoft to do. If word gets out, a million independent browser projects would be launched in a matter of hours.
Dead horse beats you, whatever...
No fair -- I browse Slashdot when at work, with a locked down desktop. When at home I used Firefox out of personal choice, but then I'm usually browsing other sites.
Note: "Other" does not mean PR0N.
Note2: Ok, "does not necessarily mean PR0N".
Note3: Ok, "in the majority of cases does not mean PR0N".
Note4: OK OK OK. "does not exclusively mean PR0N".
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Slashdot and porn, what else is there?
Only shooting for 10%? They should come up with a good slogan to help them hit their goals, like:
Mozilla FireFox -- The Libertarian Candidate of Browsers
Mozilla FireFox -- Shouldn't YOUR computer be on Fire?
Put some nice pr0n there, post your web address here , wait to get slashdotted and post new statistics like:
Hardcore:
93 % - IE
3 % - Firefox
2 % - Safari
1 % - Opera
Zoo:
45% - Safari
25 % - Mozilla
20 % - Firefox
3 % - IE
1 - Opera
Group:
69 % - Konquerror
22 % - IE
5 % - unspecified
Gay:
100 % - Opera
In this way the developers will know what category of users they should foccuss on...
I've been using the same trick to view porn sites that give their best content only to GoogleBot, in order to increase their ranking. Mmmm...
See! Slashdot does have a spelling and grammar checker! His name is Chris. Eat your heart out Word.
That's a very strange (but highly amusing) site. Check out their graphic of the IE logo dressed as Bin Laden.
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Such as...?