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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.

2 of 443 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Upgrade? by Homology · · Score: 0, Troll

    > I think they're referring to people like me who still run 1.0.7 and need to upgrade to 1.5.0.4. I choose not to upgrade because I think the 1.5 interface is too sloppy compared to the 1.0.7 interface.

    You need to upgrade because Firefox is full of security holes, deemed critical
    by the developers themselves, but patched. Firefox security record is not
    exactly glorious.

    People think that just because some application is open source it's secure; how wrong
    they are to believe that.

  2. Re:Major flaw of Firefox - no instant zoom by metamatic · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ctrl+

    Ctrl-

    Have a nice day.

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