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.”
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This analysis overlooks something important: people use Firefox because they want to use Firefox. Regardless of what version they’re using, they’ve made a conscious decision to download and install it. People use Internet Explorer because they don’t know any better, or because they’re using a corporate machine that won’t let them install anything else. It’s hardly surprising that Firefox users would upgrade their version more quickly than IE users.
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