See? What did I recommended!
I just saw google's breaking news that Firefox 4 beat MS IE9 by almost 3 timex more popularity! 7 vs 2.4 million downloads within 1st 24hrs.
Google news did not mentioned their own product Chrome.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20046114-264.html
Firefox 4 doubles IE9's 24-hour download tally
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Firefox 4 managed to double IE9's download total in less than 24 hours after its release.
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Firefox may be under fire from Microsoft's newly competitive browser, but with more than twice the downloads in its first day, Firefox 4 today soared over its rival by one measurement.
Microsoft, not without reason,
boasted that IE9 was downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours after its release last week. And that is indeed a big number, especially for a browser that tech enthusiasts had scoffed at for years.
But less than 24 hours after its own launch, Firefox 4 cleared 4.7 million, according to the
Mozilla Glow site that logs downloads.
That's a lot less than the
8 million copies of Firefox 3 downloaded in that version's 24-hour debut in 2008, but that event was a heavily promoted "Download Day," and it should be noted that Firefox 4's full day hasn't finished yet.
And it does signal that at least a very sizable chunk of the Net-connected population is, in Firefox's apt phrase, choosing to "upgrade the Web." New browsers bring new Web standards, new performance, and often a new auto-update ethos that likely will lead to browsers staying continuously updated. That could simplify lives for Web developers who constantly wrangle with the difficulties of supporting old browsers.
Firefox 4 brings a raft of new features--new security and privacy options, faster loading and JavaScript, support for a variety of new standards including WebM video and WebGL 3D graphics, and 3D acceleration that extends even to Windows XP.
Mozilla expects that its arrival will lead to an increase in usage. The browser maker said it has 400 million Firefox users and counting, but as a percentage of worldwide browser use it has lost share to Chrome, which now accounts for more than 10 percent of usage worldwide.
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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Mozilla's newly launched Firefox 4 Web browser was downloaded nearly 7 million times worldwide in the first 24 hours, according to media reports.
The number was almost triple the 2.4 million downloads that Microsoft reported in the first 24 hours after the Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) was released.
Nevertheless, the number lagged behind the record-breaking performance of Firefox 3, which was downloaded more than 8 million times in the first day after launch in mid-2008.
Statistics show that Firefox 4 has attracted interest from around the world, with 44 percent downloads in Europe, 26 percent in North America. and 20 percent in Asia.
Mozilla launched Firefox 4 on Tuesday at around 10:00 a.m. EDT to compete with Microsoft's IE9 and Google Chrome.
The new Web browser was originally scheduled to ship last November, but bugs delayed the release into early this year.
Firefox trumped IE9 in the first day download contest because it runs on Windows XP, the 10-year-old operating system that IE9 doesn't support.
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Millions download latest Firefox browser
Mozilla has been visualising the location of users as they download Firefox 4.
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More than five million people have downloaded the latest version of Firefox since its release a day ago.
Mozilla, which makes the number two web browser, has been keeping a real-time map showing where in the world users are installing the software.
Despite the rapid uptake, downloads have been slower for version 4 than its predecessor.
Over the past year, Firefox's market share has declined slightly in the face of competition from Google's Chrome.
Firefox 4 was made available for download less than a month after Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of its market-leading browser.
Both pieces of software promise users a faster, more secure online experience.
Firefox, like its rival, now makes extensive use of HTML 5 - the newest standard for the hypertext language used to build websites.
Both browsers also feature hardware acceleration for displaying web pages - drawing on the power of a computer's graphics processor to improve the speed of complex visuals.
Declining share Within its first 24 hours, more than 5.5 million users had downloaded Firefox 4. However, that falls short of the 8 million who downloaded version 3 on its release day in 2008.
The lower figure may be explained by the widespread availability of pre-release versions of Firefox 4 in the months ahead of its launch.
Firefox has enjoyed rapid growth since it first appeared in 2004. At its peak, in 2009 it held a 24% market share,
according to Netmarketshare.
However, by February 2011 its slice of the browser market had fallen to 21%.
At the same time, Google's Chrome browser has grown from 1% to 10%, according to the same figures.
Internet Explorer remains the dominant platform, although its fall has been the most precipitous - from 68% in March 2009 to 56% in February 2011.
Some analysts believe that Firefox could still secure a bigger piece of the increasingly fragmented market, especially among corporate users.
"Internet Explorer 9 is only for Windows Vista and 7. Two thirds of companies are still using Windows XP," said Ovum analyst Richard Edwards.
"If you want to make the most of the HTML 5 stuff that is out there then you have to go to IE9 and a Windows 7 upgrade or switch to Firefox.
"That may be a significant opportunity for Firefox," he said.
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...-soars-thanks-to-microsofts-luddite-customers
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By Todd Bishop
GeekWire
Maybe it’s time for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team to reconsider that whole Windows XP thing?
Firefox 4 clocked about
5 million downloads on its first day and is
fast approaching 7 million this morning, as the new browser from Mozilla attracts huge interest from around the world.
That doesn’t match the
record-breaking performance of Firefox 3, but it trounces
the 2.35 million downloads that Microsoft reported in the first 24 hours after the Internet Explorer 9 release. (Msnbc.com is a Microsoft-NBC Universal joint venture.)
But keep in mind that Microsoft is voluntarily limiting its market, not only by making Internet Explorer exclusive to Windows but also by declining to make the new browser work on Windows XP. Even though Windows XP is nearly 10 years old at this point, more than 40 percent of Internet users are still clinging to it, putting IE9 at a disadvantage in the numbers game by not supporting XP.
Firefox, in contrast,
continues to support Windows XP. Mozilla knew coming in that it would have a built-in advantage, based on Microsoft’s choice to support only the newer Windows Vista and 7.
“That’s a decision that they get to make, but it sure did surprise us, because the best metrics that we’ve got say 40 to 50 percent of the web is still on XP. That’s too big for us to just leave them behind,” said Johnathan Nightingale, the Firefox engineering director,
in a recent interview.
Why no IE9 on XP? Microsoft’s reasoning is that browsers “should require the modern graphics and security infrastructure that have come along since 2001.” The company says in a statement that “Internet Explorer 9 is intended to be run on a modern operating system in order to build on the latest hardware and operating system innovations.”
Of course, it’s also in Microsoft’s business interest to get people to buy a new Windows version.
The latest browser
market-share stats, from just before the release of the new browsers, put Internet Explorer at 56.8 percent, down from 68 percent two years ago. Firefox has held relatively steady over that period, but the big gainer has been Google Chrome, which rose up from practically nothing to now boast nearly 11 percent of the worldwide market.
but these oppositions are still in childish fantasy regarding being REAL Opposition.:( Obviously each & every one of such opposition thinks that he/she is the real opposition while have a own perspective to consider every other opposition who are not within this narrow perspective to be non-REAL opposition. Very childish like this.:p
