Slashdot Mirror


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."

6 of 591 comments (clear)

  1. Re:And the one site is by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  2. Re:I'm sure I'm not the only one by Dojikami · · Score: 4, Informative

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

  3. Another stat by Stalus · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

  4. Re:Why alarm bells? by sam_paris · · Score: 4, Informative

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

  5. Re:Why alarm bells? by omnipresentbob · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:Why alarm bells? by IntlHarvester · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    --
    Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.