Firefox & 75%

[Yaka]

according to this Guardian article 75% of peeps who download mozilla's firefox browser dont continue to use it. the article cites the improvments in IE7 over IE6 as the main culprit.

 

[Mazling]

I'd cite "Oh, this comes as part of windows therefore it must be better." as the problem. I'd like to know the ratio of firefox installations to firefox articles read.

 

[Draylor]

Ummmm, thats not the link you wanted it to be.

But Trem is great and hes fixed it now.

 

[Chilly]

It also comes down to the fact that IE7 isnt all that bad if you are not a pro user (which many of us fall into). I suspect that if you look at firefox usage vs other browsers on a demographic by demographic basis it will be the peons who have no real reason to switch that make up the bulk of IE users. And to be fair - why *should* they download firefox? They probably have virus and malware scanners sold to them as part of a new PC and windows supplies some pretty decent anti malware kit as well.

 

[GReaper]

Most people tend to check out the web stats for their sites to guess the amount of Firefox users.

Every set of statistics is going to show a different set of results. A tech related site might have a high percentage of Firefox users, people may download once and install on multiple machines, not everyone who downloads is going to use it, etc.

 

[Rebel]

Wonder what retention rates are for opera downloads? :d