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IT-Analysis: Is Firefox Already the Dominant Browser?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 8, 2005

“Go to www.boingboing.net and take a look at the monthly stats.
They change all the time (as they are updated regularly) and when I
last looked they showed 38% of visitors to the BoingBoing web site
were Firefox users, 34.9% Internet Explorer users and 10% Safari
users (Safari is Apple’s browser). So is this telling us that
Firefox has already become the dominant browser?

“Well, probably not–but it is certainly dominant among visitors
to BoingBoing and there is nothing that I can detect about the site
that would give a statistical twist in favour of one browser rather
than another. However, other sites tell a different story…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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