Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Browser Wars -- the Firefox version
Every now and then, I am gripped by an evangelical zeal to promote the cause of something or the other. Time and again, I have promoted alternatives to the hideous Internet Explorer on this blog. Ever since the effective demise of Netscape, IE has had a firm grip on over 94% of the browser market. So, the recent successes of Firefox (1 million downloads in the first 100 hours) comes as great news. For those of you who came in late to the revolution to take back the web, here's where you need to head to pronto.
In the meanwhile, I also had a look at the browser stats on this blog and this is what I came up with.
Admittedly, the readers of this blog are probably a great deal more techno savvy than the general public. Even so, it was heartening to see IE not enjoying a total dominance as used to be the case as recently as a year ago. One hopes Firefox will prove a real competitor to IE once it moves out of beta mode.
In the meanwhile, I also had a look at the browser stats on this blog and this is what I came up with.
Admittedly, the readers of this blog are probably a great deal more techno savvy than the general public. Even so, it was heartening to see IE not enjoying a total dominance as used to be the case as recently as a year ago. One hopes Firefox will prove a real competitor to IE once it moves out of beta mode.
