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Business 2.0 mentions that growth rate of Firefox is slowing. The market share of the browser has plateaued at 5.69 per cent while Internet Explorer holds a domineering 89.9 per cent share. Personally, I prefer Firefox and haven’t touched IE for months now, apart from occasionally checking my almost-defunct hotmail email. The geeks have been using Firefox for a while now while the mass consumers and helpless corporate souls still stick with IE; I think it is more to do with awareness and amount of net usage. My personal stats tell me that almost 24% readers use Firefox and other related browsers (Mozilla, Netscape, etc.); much more than the average Internet user. Chances are that if you surf the Net a lot, are genuinely concerned about security issues, and do not wish to be inundated with spyware, you use Firefox. Boing Boing, the blog of blogs also see similar trends. I see no reason why you do not if you don’t yet. Ask my poor roomie who used IE diligently until the spyware rendered his PC unusable and only the Format C: command seemed to work.
Havoc is trying to write a post on his IE preference for sometime now. But all the links on the Internet seem to point towards why you shouldn’t use IE. I wonder if that tells him something.
by Patrix | on Monday, February 28th, 2005 at 8:00 pm | 
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March 1st, 2005 at 5:35 pm reply
Patrix : I’ll be back !!! I used IE until a month back and am already thinking of switching back to IE.
GO MSFT !!!
March 1st, 2005 at 8:04 pm reply
Havoc - Give me proof and a strong statistical sample…not individual experience.
March 2nd, 2005 at 1:02 am reply
Bah! The story starved media will take any statistical artefact in the Firefox vs. IE graph and make it a headline. I say Go Firefox!
Havoc have you tried extensions? Ahhh the pleasure of right clicking to fill any random registration via bugmenot. The pleasure of seeing the next 7 day’s weather at the bottom of your browser, of autocopy and adblock. Of quicknot and del.icio.us - there is no doubt my friend, Internet Explorer has left the building!
March 2nd, 2005 at 8:16 am reply
Ajju - Could you repost the link to the Bugmenot extension? I have been waiting for that one for a long time.