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:File under "So what?"

[moore.dustin]

Furthermore, a decent chunk of IE users are the "computer = magic black box" type, who use IE because it's what came on the computer. If those people aren't doing Windows Updates (likely enough, imo), they won't get IE7. By contrast, the vast majority of Firefox users use it by choice, not because it was there. Those people are far more likely to manually upgrade.

Ding Ding Ding!!! We have a winner. You hit the nail on the head. Really, your whole reply was spot on, but this part in particular cannot be overlooked.

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

[MilesAttacca]

But it's not the Internet! If anything it's the World Wide Web! D: