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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. Forcing the count up by whitehatlurker · · Score: 1, Troll
    One thing's for sure, with the release of [...] 1.0.4 we can probably expect to breach the 80 million download mark shortly.


    Well, that's one way to do it - if you keep releasing security fixes, you drive the download count up. ;-)

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  2. Nobody gives a rats ass by VolcomPimp · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody cares about Firefox's exploits (that last like what? 2 days? stfu already

  3. it could also mean by gmplague · · Score: 1, Troll

    that you need to chill the fuck out.

    "oh no, slow growth for 5 days!? firefox is over!"

    that's what it sounds like to me. stop seeing trends in white noise.

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