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Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve
Reader Alex links to news of a study comparing the currency and patch level of various Web browsers, excerpting:
"Firefox users were far and away the most likely to use the latest version, with an overwhelming 83.3 percent running an updated browser on any given day. However, despite Firefox's single click integrate auto-update functionality, 16.7 percent of Firefox users still continue to access the Web with an outdated version of the browser, researchers said. The study also revealed that the majority of Safari users (65.3) percent were likely to use the latest version of the browser between December 2007 and June 2008, after Safari version 3 became available. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Explorer users ranked last in terms of safe browsing. Between January 2007 and June 2008, less than half of IE users — 47.6 percent — were running the most secure browser version during the same time period."
There, I finally upgraded to FF3 on my FC8 box. You happy now?
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It's unbelievable how pathetic ms is. I use a win xp (my employers pc) a mac and a ubuntu linux box at home. mac and ubuntu are fats straightforward and clean for updates. same for firefox on the 3 os. the mess is always with ms, with server not responding, trying to install and failing. This morning it did the the ms stupid thing. asked if I wanted to read some article on security (!), then tried to open a docx (amazing) which did not download at ald and stalled the stupid ie (which is only used for ms updates and some ms only applications like sharepoint).
Umm.... AFAIK, Lenovo Thinkpad Txx series is "Linux ready", yet I had to do some tweaks to get my T60 working completely fine with Ubuntu 7.10 - except hibernate/suspend. (But I have to agree, latest Ubuntu had almost everything working out of the box.)
May be we are not too far away from all vendors going "Linux ready" stickers? Probably wishful thinking, but a lot can change in next two years.