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Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide

Posted by kdawson on from the press-the-advantage dept.

gQuigs notes a graph up at StatCounter Global Statistics, which shows that in the last few days Firefox 3.5 became the most used browser version worldwide, edging ahead of IE7. IE8 is rising fast (along with Windows 7), but over the last few months the slope of Firefox's worldwide curve has been steeper. (In the US, IE8 has always been ahead of Firefox 3.5; in Europe Firefox has led since late summer.) The submitter suggests using the time when Firefox rules the roost, globally speaking, to put the final nail in the coffin of IE6, which still has a 14% global share (5%-7% in the US and EU; China and Korea are holding up IE6's numbers).

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  1. Browser down. by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    OS next.

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    1. Re:Browser down. by TheSunborn · · Score: 5, Funny

      People already complain that firefox is to bloatet. Adding an os might really cause people to complain, but they can always do it as a plugin

    2. Re:Browser down. by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 3, Funny

      only if I could get Emacs as a Firefox plugin...

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    3. Re:Browser down. by Neil+Hodges · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why would you want to create a Linux plugin for Firefox when you can run Firefox on Linux instead?

    4. Re:Browser down. by rrohbeck · · Score: 2, Funny

      There's an x86 emulator in Java. Maybe it'll boot Linux.
      Then you could even run vim :P

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    5. Re:Browser down. by ihuntrocks · · Score: 5, Funny

      Given how bloated Emacs is, you're more likely to be able to get Firefox for Emacs.

      Emacs is a wonderful operating system. All it lacks is a decent text editor.

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    6. Re:Browser down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Emacs is a wonderful operating system. All it lacks is a decent text editor.

      What do you mean by that? You can run Vi in Emacs.

    7. Re:Browser down. by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Funny

      You know.

      Yo dawg, we heard yall use Linux....

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    8. Re:Browser down. by ihuntrocks · · Score: 5, Funny

      I concede defeat to you, sir. Well, played. Well played indeed.

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    9. Re:Browser down. by slashchuck · · Score: 3, Funny

      You young whippersnappers and your emacs or vim. In my day it was edlin or nothing.

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    10. Re:Browser down. by Idiomatick · · Score: 5, Funny

      I had punch cards... and we hadn't invented the hole punch yet so we had to do it with our fingers. You people worry about carpel tunnel from typing... try ramming your pinky through a sheet of card several hundred thousand times a night. Back then, code monkeys were actual monkeys we trained to poke holes for us to spare our own fingers.

    11. Re:Browser down. by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 4, Funny

      You and your advanced "hole punching technology" have no idea what I go thru

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    12. Re:Browser down. by DarkAxi0m · · Score: 2, Funny

      monkeys? luxury!

      we had to make our holes with damp twine,
      and on top of that, we had to reuse the old cards by filling in the holes with skin from our blisters.

    13. Re:Browser down. by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      You had it EASY! We had to punch the holes in ourselves using jagged pieces of rock 25 hours a day, until the IT Manager came along, cut us all to ribbons, ingested us in a carnivorous cannibalistic rage, only have to start again, this time in EBDIC!

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    14. Re:Browser down. by bronney · · Score: 4, Funny

      Last time I punched a ho I got owned.

    15. Re:Browser down. by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Funny

      LUCKY BASTARD! All we had was flat rocks...the big rocks were the ones, the little rocks were the zeros and Deity help you if an earthquake came along and messed up your program. And where do you think stoning came from? It was just us trying to text message! Receiving a single txt with more than "come here" in it could KILL YOU!!!

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  2. My plan worked by palmerj3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reenactment - relative has problem with computer

    1. Remove shortcuts to Internet Explorer
    2. Rename Firefox shortcuts to "Internet"

    Firefox 3.5 - My Idea

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  3. Re:An interesting way to summarize the data ... by welcher · · Score: 2, Funny

    that is the ugliest plot i have seen in a long, long time.

  4. Re:StatCounter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    As opposed to him rethinking the statement in the past?

  5. Obligatory xkcd post by zill · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/198/

    Unless you're a web browser developer, keeping track of global browser market-shares is just plain nerdy. But then again, this is /..

  6. Yeah, but... by Slur · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...just imagine a Beowulf cluster of Firefox plugins!

    Don't laugh, some joker will probably do it just to prove it can be done.

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  7. Re:What happened to Netcraft confirming it? by sayfawa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't you heard? Netcraft is dead.

    Umm... Netcraft confirms it?

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  8. Re:IE6? Really? by williamhb · · Score: 3, Funny

    And while IE 6 may be archaic, if you have an intranet based on people using IE 6 that IE 7+, Firefox or another browser breaks, you either have to upgrade the entire intranet or keep IE 6 around

    More to the point, the following scenario tends to happen in large corporate IT...

    Users: "IE6 is old, slow, and renders pages incorrectly. We'd like to install a more recent browser. As per IT policy, we are raising a support request to install non-standard software or upgrade the corporate standard image."
    IT: (thinks) "Bugger, they're asking me to do some work again... hmm..." (types email)

    Dear users,
    In regard of your requests for Firefox or IE8. As this is a user-requested upgrade, we require you to provide a full cost-benefit analysis of the upgrade, taking into account the impact on our corporate agreements with third party hardware and software suppliers (which we will not reveal to you as they are commercial in confidence), a detailed technical analysis of the impact on all internal software infrastructure (including those under development that we won't tell you about), and the cost of manpower to perform the upgrade using specific IT staff's accurate salaries and overheads (which again we will not reveal to you). The analysis must contain a full twenty-page analysis of the benefits including time-in-motion studies. For brevity, however, the entire document must be no longer than half a page. Please deliver in person, in triplicate, printed on unicorn hide rather than paper (the IT analyst is allergic to most paper bleaches). We will then schedule the upgrade in our next user-requested improvement slot, currently scheduled for the year 5000. No there is not a timecode for your work preparing this analysis.
    best regards,
    Your helpful IT support team.

  9. Re:IE6? Really? by david.given · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that IE8 is perfectly capable of emulating both IE6's and IE7's standards-noncompliance modes, in addition to rendering in a proper (albeit lacking some newer features) standards-compliant mode.

    I recently spent some time in Korea, working on-site for a customer who you will have heard of.

    We had to set up our machine with their ghastly intranet security software. After realising that their intranet portal only works with IE due to stupid stuff like missing Javascript onClick handlers, we started the installation procedure and the requisite four reboots. It failed weirdly after reboot #3.

    After some time trying to make it work, we discovered that their security software is not compatible with IE8.

    Unfortunately our sysadmin is quite efficient, which means that the Windows installation had IE8 slipstreamed into it. This meant it couldn't be removed. And you can't install IE7 on a machine with IE8 on it. Which meant that the only way to progress was to reinstall Windows, from scratch, using an XP CD that the customer lent us.

    ...which turned out to have a virus on it.

    </pissed off>

  10. Re:Who is using IE6: by thue · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps you could try requesting an exception by saying that you need Firefox to read Slashdot?