Firefox Fanboys Ignore the Bad News in the Stats - Firefox Market Gains Slowing

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As I posted earlier, OneStat had released new figures on browser usage earlier in the week. Apparently only BetaNews was looking at the text of the article, rather than just the stats, since most other news sites have been simply trumpeting the further gains in market share by FF, rather than noting the slow-down in growth.

Every other article available seems to have an irrational exuberance at whatever gains FF seems to get. It's not wrong then, to say the press loves an underdog. So much so that Bogglers report on "just the exuberance". But there's only room for one punchy insurgency? Of course I recognise that slowing growth may well be a naturally relative progression from the feverish downloading of the earlier days of FF 1.0 etc.

Oh, and apparently the 5 Day News Cycle has come to a close again marked by sluggishness on Opera Blogs. I'll probably be posting the follow ups to my series on Opera Boggling.



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The point of fan-boy activism, of course, is to rally the troops when there is no real news to feed them.. (Firefox download counts are probably exaggerating their increase in market share, which is why the numbers there still look strong, because users of earlier versions of Firefox sometimes have to re-download to get security patches)

Will be interesting to see the spike they can get when Firefox 1.2 is (belatedly) released. Since it won't be a new product by then, a comparison with Opera's 1 million download in 2 days will be interesting (taking into account the difference in userbase to begin with)

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