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Firefox Growth Slowing?
ninja_assault_kitten writes "Silicon.com has an interesting article on the apparently slowing growth of Firefox. To quote the article, 'The slackening of Firefox's growth could mean that the browser has converted a substantial proportion of its natural constituency, thought to be early adopters and the technically savvy. It could also show that the browser's widely publicised security flaws have begun to undermine the foundation's argument that people should switch from IE to be safer.' One thing's for sure, with the release of 1.0.3 and now 1.0.4 we can probably expect to breach the 80 million download mark shortly."
Informative? WTF are you mods smoking?? (and can I have some?)
What, you think this guy went and polled every geek on earth?
maybe that's because it can't even render slashdot correctly. fools, you just like it because it's different. when you get down to it, IE is just as good, if not better in that more people use it. It has better support (a multi-billion dollar corporation) than a bunch of hackers could ever supply. i don't see what all the fuss is about. if firefox dies, what do i care?
Mod this up.
Mozilla-fanbois are anal beancounters, just like all Open Source activists.
Besides, Firefox has become bloated and extremely buggy and laggy; I use Opera everywhere now (which feels incredibly faster than FF).
I'm still waiting for a browser on Linux with a lighter engine than Gecko (I'm thinking of KHTML, but without the KDE-Krap).
A download total number (used for marketing) is essentially used as a "vote of confidence".
No. It just makes the number utterly worthless.
I use Safari, and could really give shit about how many downloads Firefox
This is typical of Apple-fanbois. Apple just steals KHTML-code for Safari and noone cares about that in the Apple-camp.
Just wait till Safari causes your HFS+ partition to crash and burn... you'll be a Firefox on mac convert as well.
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
2005 IE 6 IE 5 O 7/8 Ffox Moz NN 4 NN 7
May 61.9% 3.1% 1.9% 24.6% 3.6% 0.2% 0.9%
Apr 62.3% 3.4% 1.9% 23.9% 3.5% 0.2% 0.9%
Mar 63.8% 3.9% 1.8% 21.8% 3.7% 0.2% 1.0%
Feb 64.8% 4.2% 1.9% 20.4% 3.9% 0.2% 1.1%
Jan 65.3% 4.4% 2.1% 19.3% 4.0% 0.3% 1.1%
FIREFOX is spreading like profound epidemic. No less then Computational triumph of human spirt.
I suggest you read Slashdot