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Firefox Growth Slowing?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the reaching-equilibrium dept.

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."

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  1. How many unique downloads? by xquark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    80 million I'm assuming a composite...

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  2. Corporate Adoption by chill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And IBM is encouraging in-house employees to use Firefox.

    There are still several "business" websites such as financial services, B2B and corporate intranets that rely on ActiveX and IE.

    While Firefox's growth may be slowing, it is still growing -- just not as fast. When the IE-only sites start to get more complaints about usability from their customers, then you will start to see a steady stream of corporate support for Firefox.

    -Charles

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