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Firefox 4 leaves Internet Explorer 9 in the dust

by Navin Maini on 24 March 2011, 12:11

Tags: Mozilla

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It may be comfortably over 15m at the time of writing, but Mozilla has announced that its spruced-up Firefox 4 browser more than nimbly attained the 7.1m mark for downloads, in the 24-hour period following general availability, earlier this week.

Internet Explorer 9, next out of the pit-stop after Chrome 10 in what has been a busy month for browser releases, notched in at 2.35m on the bedpost.

Pointing out that the numbers Firefox 4 has generated are in addition to the 3m plus users running a release candidate version of the browser, you can see why Firefox 4 has plastered a smile over Mozilla's face.

Billed as tire-screeching fast, wildly intuitive and a redefinition of the browser itself, the company is not resting on its laurels, and is gearing-up to deliver its vision to Android and Maemo platforms over the course of the next few weeks too.

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Posted by Tattysnuc - Thu 24 Mar 2011 12:32
I'll wager that the reason that the reason that IE9 is growing slower is because of it's corporate implementations. Version upgrades like this need to be deployed and to so therefore need to be scheduled.

In my experience, thsoe who are running Firefox, they have a more technical grounding, and therefore will upgrade, or be able to upgrade at their own behest, as opposed to when Windows Updates says to or their IT bod does….
Posted by Brewster0101 - Thu 24 Mar 2011 12:49
Chrome is my default browser. I use IE when.chrome doesnt work on some sites. I installed IE9 and then uninstalled quite.quickly as it was slow and buggy with a lot of pages and videos..
Posted by DaKid - Thu 24 Mar 2011 13:06
Interesting when read against this … http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/firefox-4-slower-than-chrome-10-IE9?source=nww_rss
Posted by mwarner - Thu 24 Mar 2011 13:35
Brewster0101
Chrome is my default browser. I use IE when.chrome doesnt work on some sites. I installed IE9 and then uninstalled quite.quickly as it was slow and buggy with a lot of pages and videos..

I tend to agree that Chrome is the best browser, at least for my requirements. However, “Slow and Buggy” is not quite how I would describe IE9. I am actually quite impressed with it, and certainly wouldn't uninstall it for IE8 if it wasn't by default browser. It is hugely faster than previous versions of IE in my experience. Some sites may not work correctly with IE9 at the moment, but that is the fault of the site administrators rather than IE9. You can always drop back to compatibility view if you find something that doesn't work.
Posted by Phage - Thu 24 Mar 2011 13:36
As that reviewer said.

“I like the Firefox add-ons I use. I don't like the feeling that Chrome is tracking ALL of my browsing habits.”

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