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Firefox Share Slipped in July for the First Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-sky-is-falling-the-sky-is-falling dept.

prostoalex writes "Between June and July of this year, Firefox lost 0.64% of the users, while Microsoft IE gained the same amount, leaving other browsers at their usual zero point something share. Could recent security problems and lack of stability, reported by some users, lead to the decline of the browser that just passed 80 million downloads?" I think the other thing to remember is that while ~8% seems a lot, there's a still a huge amount of ground to cover -- and a number change like this is statistical noise. I should point out that my issue with noise isn't the absolute numbers; it's the somewhat inadequate measurements tools for this.

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  1. It was me, sorry by digitalgiblet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Geeze, guys I'm really sorry. It was me. I bought a new computer with XP (long-time critic, first time user) and actually liked the way IE rendered text. I SWEAR I'm planning to go back to using Firefox ANY DAY NOW. The numbers should be back up then...

  2. Losing market due to User Agent by kyoko21 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps the drop is due to users customizing their User Agent to report to be something other than Mozilla/Firefox.

    I myself modified my Firefox so that it browser info returns ... well you can read about it (need some cleaning up).

    user_pref("general.useragent.override", "NSACarnivore/13.7(X11;Multix;Multix;US;1776;HLS)" );
    user_pref("general.useragent.oscpu.override", "OpenVAX/VMS");
    user_pref("general.useragent.vendor", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.useragent.vendorSub", "13.7");
    user_pref("general.useragent.vendorComment", "Carnivore 13.7");
    user_pref("general.useragent.product", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.useragent.productSub", "13.7");
    user_pref("general.useragent.ProductComment", "Carnivore 13.7");
    user_pref("general.platform.override", "OpenVAX/VMS");
    user_pref("general.appcodename.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.appCodeName.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.appversion.override", "13.7 (Multex;en-US)");
    user_pref("general.appname.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.oscpu.override", "PPC128");
    user_pref("general.vendor.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.vendorSub.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.product.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("general.useragent.vendor.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("window.navigator.appName.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("window.navigator.product.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("window.navigator.productSub.override", "13.7");
    user_pref("window.navigator.vendor.override", "Carnivore");
    user_pref("window.navigator.vendorSub.override", "13.7");

  3. Re:The main problem as I see it by kmmatthews · · Score: 2, Funny
    I have both IE and Firefox on my machine. Why?

    Because you can't remove IE?

    --
    feh. stuff.