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Firefox Usage Climbing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-thats-nothing dept.

kbox writes "According to the Amsterdam analytics firm onestat The Firefox browser has jumped from a global market share of 8.7% to a whopping 13% since April 2005. The national usage of Firefox make some interesting reading, too, with Firefox making up 16% in the USA, 24% in Australia and a huge 39% in Germany." Unsurprisingly, on Slashdot we skew the averages somewhat, with Firefox weighing in at 65% of our traffic... but sadly 18% of our Firefox users need to upgrade to the latest version ;) Go do that now.

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  1. Re:Work by T_ConX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed. I'm a summer student working on an internship right now.

    At the orientation, they had a woman from IT give us the rundown on how to log into our computers blahblahblah. A student asked if they had Firefox. The IT staffer said that they don't allow instant messanger software on the computers...

    Ya... switch to Firefox was one of the smartest computer choices I ever made.

  2. Re:Firefox by remembertomorrow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Semantics, shemantics.

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  3. IE Nostalgia by End+Program · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe Microsoft can build a widget for Firefox that pegs the CPU usage to 100% while a little Explorer icon keeps spinning in the corner deciding if you are worthy enough for it to load the page. Ah, just like old times...

  4. Re:One problem... by weeb0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would'nt be possible to use the spyware knowledge to install incognito firefox on every internet explorer user's computer on our own website ????

    Since the microsoft loving dumb users don't even know how to install software, it would be helping them to know a beautiful world ? And show them there is other software company than microsoft

  5. Re:Work by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Funny

    At the orientation, they had a woman from IT

    So... which organization do you do your internship? I mean, I'm just showing some interest here, from one geek to another and all that.

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  6. Re:Work by T_ConX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't get excited. She didn't know what Firefox was, and was at least in her 50's...

    But if you must know, it's a Canadian Oil and Gas company.

  7. firefox owns ie7 by sorin7486 · · Score: 2, Funny

    this is funny stuff: http://www.ie7.com/ :)))))))))))))))

  8. Bah by JazzLad · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just do what I did: Tell your firewall to not allow Firefox.

    Simple fix.

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    c'mon, it's FUNNY :P

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