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Firefox Continues to Bite into IE Usage

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-out-for-the-dew-claw dept.

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'"

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  1. comeback by Sv-Manowar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft are hoping that by taking leaves from Mozilla's book, such as Tabbed Browsing and putting them into IE7, the will stop the users who are not very tech savvy from changing to firefox, therefore still keeping the larger user base

    Mozilla has an advantage with the fact that they can release a new version practically anytime, with updates nightly or anything. IE updates have to go out to everyone using it, and in general the people will not know as much, therefore creating more trouble.

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    1. Re:comeback by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Informative

      IIRC tabbed browsing first apeared in NetCaptor an alt IE GUI browser , then in opera 4.
      Wikipedia seems to agree with me
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCaptor

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  2. Re:A "Beta?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

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