Browser wars: Firefox still climbing
The latest
local figures from StatCounter show Internet Explorer
continues its steady decline. Around one-third of Kiwis now use Firefox
while IE usage is approaching the 50% mark (down from almost 70% six
months ago).On the browser version front Firefox is a solid number two:
| Internet Explorer 7.0 | 44% |
| Firefox 3.0 | 31% |
| Internet Explorer | 9% |
| Safari 3.1 & 3.2 | 5% |
| Firefox 2.0 | 3% |
| Chrome 1.0 | 3% |
| Internet Explorer 8.0 | 1% |
| Others | 4% |
Interestingly, the figures for Antartica show the fox has 100% of the market. What do the ice boffins know that 50% of the rest of us don't...?
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Comments
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Joannah
Posted by: Joannah | April 7, 2009 11:50 PM
On what I said before, I saw this video come up in my feeds today. It backs up what I thought about there not really being a noticeable difference in speed.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=144386
Posted by: curious george | March 13, 2009 9:28 PM
Maybe you guys need to give Opera a whirl. It rocks!
Posted by: Poon | March 10, 2009 2:51 PM
It is suprising, Firefox seems to get a lot of good reviews for security even though it had 115 security flaws last year according to Secunia, and FF2 went end of life with 6 high or critical severity vulnerabilities that had been known and unfixed since the beginning of 2008.
That's a lot of vulnerabilities compared to IE with 31 over the same period, and it puts FF users at risk 6 times over for the whole year.
Maybe the rest of us know something that the ice boffins don't?
IMHO, IE is the winner for security now. FF3 does win handily on Sunspider but I don't notice any speed difference in doing normal browsing.
Posted by: curious george | March 9, 2009 10:07 PM
I can't belive that 44% still use IE 7 I stopped using IE 4 years ago apart from microsoft updates of course and even IE 8 is not that good. I have not tried chrome but don't feel the need to change as Firefox is doing such a good job
Posted by: glen towler | March 9, 2009 12:32 PM