Firefox Continues to Bite into IE Usage

InformationSage writes "According to Information Week, Firefox usage is now over 6 percent, pulling Internet Explorer usage down below 90 percent. 'Firefox is currently the only browser that is increasing market share on a monthly basis, and it is growing at the direct expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer'"

Comments

But wont..

[Anonymous Coward]

IE7 pull this back for them with:

Better security
Tab Browsing
Conformance to standards

Re:But wont..

[88NoSoup4U88]

Doesn't really matter ; If they're on, and he'll lose his arms :

He can still make mousegestures with his nose in Firefox ;)

Re:A "Beta?"

[Nuclear Elephant]

No testing is necessary; they already tested IE 6, and the first release of 7 will only be IE6 with a new skin. It will be 2008 before SP1 comes out, which will include the new features and security fixes for 2005.

Re:Nearly 30% on my site

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd bet a lot of those "Firefox" hits will actually be Internet Explorer users, spoofing their user-agent strings, so they can "sneak" into poorly written Gecko-only sites...

Re:A "Beta?"

[Nuclear Elephant]

Funny? that wasn't supposed to be funny dammit. I'm trying to burn karma here. Mod parent down you moron!

* burnin karma all day

Often Wonder

[The Dobber]

use of Firefox rose to 6.17% from 5.59% in January

I always like how they manage to get these results out to the second decimal place.

I converted, IE evil, FireFox good. I'm warming to ThunderTurd.

Re:Nearly 30% on my site

[trboyden]

Yeah well my site gets 100% Firefox users.

Sub BrowserDetect()

If Browser != "Firefox";

RedirectBrowser("www.getfirefox.com");

End If
End Sub

Re:Is there a way Quick Launch Firefox?

[rob_squared]

It launches quickly, you just have to wait a minute.

Re:Nearly 30% on my site

[FCon4]

Just a hunch, but I think he was kidding about the code and using something Earthlings call humor.