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."

Comments

Translation to layman's term-

[guardiangod]

All the geeks on planet earth are now using Firefox.

Re:Translation to layman's term-

[pebs]

transalation:

All the geeks on planet Earth are not using IE.

(If you're using IE as your main browser, you're obviously not a geek.)

Re:Translation to layman's term-

[ignorant_coward]

Real geeks stick their tounge on a frayed Ethernet cable.

Re:80 Million Downloads...who cares!

[ColMustard]

That's funny. The first thing I install is Linux.

Oh I'll burn for that.

Growth rate slowing?

[Jonboy X]

So, the rate of growth of the number of Firefox users is slowing, or for you calculus geeks out there, the second time derivative of the number of Firefox users is presently negative.

The good news is, the *third* derivative is positive, which means that the change rate of the growth rate is increasing. Soon enough, the growth rate will even out and eventually start increasing again!

Oh, and don't even get me started about the 5th derivative...

Hey here's a thought

[Anonymous Coward]

If you have to look at the second derivative before you start finding bad news, maybe the news isn't really all that bad

Re:Nah

[dtfinch]

Outside? What's that? Oh, yes, the unhappy place where I can't program. Why would anyone want to go there?

Re:And shortly after the 80 million mark...

[Henry V .009]

Arbitrary? The number of mammal digits gets decided only after millions of years of evolution. The decimal notation of counting is developed independently all over the world to mesh with finger number. People finding mystical significance in number spurs Greek mathematics and philosophy and eventually Western Civilization.

And a punk like you comes around and finds round numbers arbitrary. Just where do you get off, huh?

Just say no to IE.

[ignorant_coward]

Using IE instead of Firefox over security concerns is like keeping your eyes closed when hooking up with a drugged up bag of herpes prostitute.

Just stick with Firefox. It's like using a rubber, which at least is 90+% effective at keeping out the herpes.