Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month

CWmike writes "Mozilla's Firefox browser is on pace to hit the 20% market-share mark next month. Net Applications marketing VP Vince Vizzaccaro didn't pin all of Firefox's increase on a change last month to its update dialog; he did note the new approach. 'Mozilla has implemented a change in Firefox 3.0 [Release Candidate 1] where the installation now has a checkbox that defaults to making Firefox your default browser,' he explained. He refused to ding Mozilla for the practice. 'The option is clearly displayed and labeled, unlike Safari, which misleadingly labeled the Safari install as an "update" [but has] since correctly changed to an 'install.' However, this practice is a break from the traditional practice browsers employed of defaulting this option to off.'"

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Re:OT Mod comment

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right. I hope they put that mod in when the add the Pedant mod.

Re:Well, isn't that ironic?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why.

Re:Percentage is meaningless

[mgblst]

Make sure you keep it a secret, and don't mention that country. Nobody is interested in that sort of information.

Re:LOOK! LISTEN! HEED!

[Anonymous Coward]

public static function ieSucks() {
        $browser = get_browser();
        $name = $browser['browser'];
        $version = $browser['version'];

        if ($name == "MSIE") {
                switch ($version) {
                        default:
                                $stillsucks = true;
                        break;
        }

        return $stillsucks;
}

while (ieSucks()) {
        switchTo('Firefox');
}

Re:LOOK! LISTEN! HEED!

[Dallas Caley]

I totally agree

Internet Explorer is simply the best tool ever (for downloading Firefox) i wouldn't even think of using anything else

Wait... what was the question?

Re:LOOK! LISTEN! HEED!

[hairyfeet]

Actually IMHO I think Firefox is a MUCH better tool for downloading Firefox than IE. Then once Firefox is done installing I just switch over to...Firefox.