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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 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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    3. 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.

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

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

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    5. 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.

    6. 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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    7. 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. 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 /..