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Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-account-for-ten-percent-of-that dept.

bheer writes "The Guardian points out a page on the Mozilla wiki noting that 'only 50% of the people downloading Firefox actually try it out, and only a further half of those continue to use it actively.' ZDNet has some commentary on the browser's retention rate. While a 25% retention rate isn't necessarily bad, Mozilla is trying to improve these figures with a 12 point plan that includes more TV and media advertising, a better start page and several installation tweaks."

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  1. Re:That's still a lot by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Informative

    While I use it when I'm on a Windows PC ... I really can't stand it on the Mac
    Then you should try Camino. "Mozilla power, Mac style."
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    Circumcision is child abuse.
  2. Re:That's still a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not entirely true.

    MSN Messenger uses IE when it needs to past things through HTTP POST, eg. to authenticate you as Curtman123@hotmail.com to MSN Spaces. This is necessary because there's no real standard way to pass HTTP POST to the default browser over the command line. I think some other clients have got around this in the past by making a temporary HTML file, having code to send the HTTP POST and then opening that in the default browser. For links in MSN messages, I find they all go the default browser.