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TechBlog: Linkpost | 11.4.2009
Maximum PC all RSS Feed: Firefox Finally Leapfrogs Internet Explorer 6
Download Squad: Old Man IE6 shakes fist as Firefox surpasses him in browser share
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Linkpost | 11.4.2009
TechBlog —
... - According to TechFlash, cuts "numbering in the hundreds" could come as early as today. • October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE6 - Overall, Internet Explorer still has almost 65 percent of the browser market, compared to Firefox's 24 percent. • ...
Firefox Finally Leapfrogs Internet Explorer 6
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... In the grand scheme of things, October might go down as a month to remember. That's the month Mozilla's Firefox browser was finally able to catch up to, and surpass, Microsoft's still popular Internet Explorer 6. ...
Old Man IE6 shakes fist as Firefox surpasses him in browser share
Download Squad —
Filed under: Internet, BrowsersWeb designers and standards advocates have tried everything to kill Internet Explorer 6, but it just refuses to die. In fact, Microsoft has extended support for the aging browser until at least mid-2010, and longer for some versions of Windows. However, there is strong evidence that people are coming around to browsers that support standards, don't make web designers cry, and have frickin' TABS, for crying out loud ...
Firefox is now more popular than IE6.
That's right: according to October ...
Firefox surpasses IE6's browser share in October
TechSpot —
October 2009's browser stats are in, and while Microsoft's Internet Explorer still lead the pack, IE6 has finally been surpassed by Firefox . Internet Explorer continued its descent, losing 1.07% browser share (from 65.71% to 64.64%), Firefox's share grew .32%, from 23.75% to 24.07%, Safari's share rose .18% to 4.42%, and Chrome furthered its lead on Opera, with the former gaining .41% (from 3.17% to 3.58%) and the latter declining .02% (from 2.19% to 2.17%). IE6 is still accounted for some 23.3% of total Internet Explorer usage -- more than any other version. IE7 claimed ...
links for 2009-11-04
Jarrett House North —
... October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE6 – Ars Technica
When IE6 withers away to nothingness, I hope I'm still alive to dance on its grave.
(tags: ie6 firefox)
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Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox! [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... That changed when Firefox came along, showing the world that it was possible to produce a lightweight, fast, extensible and secure standards-compliant standalone browser. In those five years, it has grown from being a scrappy open-source upstart the geeks use to the second-most popular browser in use, taking about a quarter of the market, according to Net Applications (and on more technical sites like this one, Firefox is by far the most popular browser). Firefox’s rapid growth was helped in part by grassroots promotional efforts like the ...
The Future of Browsers [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... . While it may seem hard to believe that it’s really been that long since Firefox first burst onto the browser scene, it’s equally hard to understate just how important it has been for the development of the web. While IE is still the most popular browser, according to Net Applications, the browser market is much healthier than it was five years ago. Several major desktop and mobile browsers are in active development, notably IE, Firefox, the WebKit-based Apple Safari and Google Chrome, and Opera. The intense competition among these vendors is ...
