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Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing

Posted by Zonk on from the get-out-there-and-download-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla 1.8 Beta 1 has been released, and in addition to numerous bug fixes now includes ECMAScript for XML (E4X). Mozilla 1.8 will serve as the code basis for Firefox 1.1. In other Mozilla related news, WebSideStory saw Firefox's usage growth slow down to just 15% (Jan-Feb) from 22% (Dec-Jan) making Firefox's 10% marketshare goal for 2005 potentially more challenging. Their stats also saw Internet Explorer usage drop below 90% for the first time in many years."

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  1. Not surprised at slowed growth by bonch · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I always knew the phony massive growth statistics Slashdot posted were anecodotal (they were always direct usage logs from tech websites...hardly a global source of Firefox's usage, but Slashdot happily posted them as such).

    Internet Explorer has been blocking popups since SP2 came out last year, and most users don't need or want tabbed browsing. Firefox doesn't offer THAT much over Internet Explorer, not even in the security area, as recent vulnerabilities have shown.

  2. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This pretty much sums it up.

    Ever since AOL bought Netscape, Firefox is in a sharp downward-spiral.

    Mozilla is full of shit.

  3. Re:Firefox isn't made by Microsoft. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The preacher said: "You're assuming that Firefox has the same amount of bugs and vulnerabilities that IE does and it's not the case."

    The choir replied : When we look at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vul nerabilities.html, it says 27 security bulletins for Firefox this year. This little puppy is looking more and more like the old Mozilla we all know every day - buggier than a NYC hooker's apartment.

    The preacher said: "and if there's a security flaw it's fixed a lot faster."

    The choir replied : Ummm, you should try surfing to: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124646&cid=104 52959 , or any other aging security bug from the Netscape days, 22183 is a good example - still not fixed from 1999. Again, looking more and more like the old Moz every day.

    Oh that's right: Mozilla 1.8 will serve as the code basis for Firefox 1.1.

    No thanks. I'll keep what I got.