Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost

Barence writes in with a data point on Firefox 3 adoption: it's been available for 10 days, and already one site is seeing 55% of its Firefox-using visitors on version 3. "Microsoft still has three out of ten people running an old version of its browser more than 18 months after Internet Explorer 7 launched, while Firefox has converted more than half of its users to the latest version in just over a week. That should set a few alarm bells ringing in Redmond."

Comments

Re:And the one site is

[Tubal-Cain]

Actually, it's www.pcpro.co.uk (TFA's site)

Re:I'm sure I'm not the only one

[Dojikami]

Why don't you use something like this http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE ?

Another stat

[Stalus]

Just another statistic: if I have my dates right, it took IE7 2.5 months to reach 100 million users. Firefox is currently at 23 million and given the current rate (1080/min), FF3 on pace to beat that - even without being distributed as part of an OS (granted, IE7 was only part of volume licensing at that date, and not retail sales).

Re:GMail Issues with FF3?

[ColdWetDog]

Seems like you're not alone. I'm holding off upgrading until it's sorted out a bit more. FF2 works just fine for me, thankyouverymuch.

Re:IE - It's not for savvy users anymore

[the_womble]

Everything is fine until they want to copy some text from the web page and paste it to a document (simliarly to what you can do with IE6 and Word) without losing the format...

I just copied your comment from FF2 to Open Office and I can see the formatting. Is this a problem specific to Xandros? Incidentally, copying from Konqueror to Open Office preserves formatting as well.

Re:Why alarm bells?

[sam_paris]

You clearly never used tamperdata, firebug, adblock, flashblock etc..

Re:Why alarm bells?

[omnipresentbob]

Golden, what else would it be? He lost his re-election bid in '92 to Clinton. Why wouldn't they? Firefly is the highest rated show in the history of television.

Re:Why alarm bells?

[IntlHarvester]

Yeah, but I'm talking more about Dick who surfs during his lunch break and uses whatever browser his IT manager tells him to use.

Harry has already gotten his IE7 through Windows Update. The IE6 holdouts are mostly corporate and maybe people with poorly pirated versions of XP.

Re:Why alarm bells?

[penguin_dance]

Ding, ding. Mod Parent up. S/He's right.

I work as a tech writer/web page coder consultant and mostly work at large companies (20K employees or more). I've yet to go to a company that has upgraded to IE7. I think the reason is two fold. First off they're using an older content managment system for their internet, so they'd have to upgrade that as well as make sure the current web pages still work (trust me they probably won't--mostly because they're coded to work well in IE6.) In fact, the company I work for presently is still using Windows 2000. And IE7 doesn't work with 2000. Most of these companies were going to skip over XP, thinking the next version out would be more stable and secure! Boy is that not going to happen! So for the near future I don't see them upgrading to anything. Yes, IE7 plays better with proper CSS, but it's another headache for coders because they have to code for IE6 as well.

I do have one big gripe with FF3--there's a bug where the tabs are not saved when you close the browser--even with the option set to such, it will open my home page, not the tabs I previously had open. So now I only have one browser upgraded until they get that fixed.