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Originally Posted by Markoman01027
I bet you anything that 10 million mark is mostly consisted of people who know nothing about security, and only switched to Firefox because they dont have the common sense to be properly secured with IE. Every program will have vulnerabilities, but it's up to the user to to have common sense on how to stay protected. Dont blame everything on IE.
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I would say that quite the opposite is true. The people that switch to Firefox are those that do care about security. The most common trait of someone who gets viruses and spyware and gets his machine turned into a zombie is someone who doesn't update his system or his virus scanner and doesn't go out and download another browser when they don't know how to use the one they have.
Even though there have only been 10 million downloads, it appears that the percentage of site visits using Firefox has greatly increased. I think that this is due to the fact that a lot of power surfers have started using Firefox. This will give Firefox a much higher percentage because someone who has Firefox and visits several hundred sites a day will have a much greater impact than the casual surfer who may only visit one or two. Anyway
here are some browser stats compiled by W3schools gleaned from their logs and others.
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| 2004 |
IE 6 |
IE 5 |
O 7 |
Moz |
NN 3 |
NN 4 |
NN 7 |
| December |
67.0% |
4.7% |
2.1% |
21.2% |
0.2% |
0.2% |
1.2% |
| November |
68.5% |
5.0% |
2.2% |
19.3% |
0.2% |
0.2% |
1.2% |
| October |
69.5% |
5.7% |
2.2% |
17.5% |
0.2% |
0.2% |
1.3% |
| September |
69.6% |
6.2% |
2.3% |
16.9% |
0.2% |
0.2% |
1.3% |
| August |
70.3% |
7.0% |
2.3% |
15.5% |
0.3% |
0.3% |
1.4% |
| July |
71.0% |
7.7% |
2.3% |
13.8% |
0.3% |
0.3% |
1.4% |
| June |
72.4% |
8.3% |
2.3% |
11.8% |
0.3% |
0.3% |
1.4% |
| May |
72.6% |
9.2% |
2.2% |
11.0% |
0.3% |
0.3% |
1.4% |
| April |
72.4% |
10.1% |
2.1% |
10.3% |
0.3% |
0.3% |
1.4% |
| March |
72.1% |
10.7% |
2.1% |
9.6% |
0.4% |
0.4% |
1.4% |
| February |
71.5% |
11.5% |
2.2% |
9.0% |
0.4% |
0.4% |
1.5% |
| January |
71.3% |
12.8% |
2.1% |
8.2% |
0.4% |
0.5% |
1.5% |
| IE |
Internet Explorer |
| AOL |
America Online * |
| Moz |
Mozilla |
| O |
Opera |
| NN |
Netscape |
Interesting that the percentage of users using Mozilla (Mozilla & Firefox) has gone from 8.2% to 21.2% in a years time. The current trend is that it is going up at a rate of about 2% a month. Site stats from 20 or so sites that I have are also in line with this trend.