Happy Birthday Firefox
November 9th 2009 is Firefox’s fifth birthday. Firefox and WordPress have grown up next to each other so we’ve always felt a brethren spirit with their team as we work toward the same goal, making the web a better place, from opposite ends of the spectrum.
Just out of curiosity, I wondered how Firefox was doing in our browser stats compared to the posts I did in 2008 and 2007.
- Firefox — 45.7%
- Internet Explorer — 38.7%
- Safari — 8.75%
- Chrome — 5.2%
This is the first time I’ve ever seen Firefox pass IE in market share for a mainstream audience like WordPress.com has.
As you can see, competition in the browser market is still alive and well. Of everything available, Firefox still continues to be my primary browser for every day usage. (And Thunderbird for my email.)
Take a few minutes and wish them a happy birthday.
(The statistics were tabulated from server access logs and include WordPress.com users as well as visitors, as we no longer run Google Analytics across WordPress.com.)
- November 9, 2009
- Community
Happy Birthday Firefox! \o/
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LoL.. Happy Birthday!
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Hey, Happy Birthday Firefox!
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Congratulations. Five years old!!!!
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Happy birthday, from a happy Firefox user!
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Happy B’day Firefox! Firefox rocks! I just can’t live without Firefox! Unfortunately, there are people unlike us [who are with IE]! I don’t use Thunderbird though.
I also checked browser stats for my last 500 hits [free account with Statcounter] and the data doesn’t make me happy! We Indians will take a lot more time in discarding IE [my blog has mostly Indian visitors, ~ 56 %]! 😦
IE 6: 24.4 %
IE7: 17.80 %
IE8: 13.20 %
IE 1.5: 0.40 %
Firefox 3.0: 16.40 %
Firefox 2.0: 2 %
Firefox 1.5: 0.40 %
Chrome: 9.20 %
Opera: 0.40 %
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firfox alwayw on fire
😎
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Yay for Firefox!
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I LOVE FIREFOX , happy birthday , wish i could buy it a gift lol
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happy birthday…….
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Happy birthday Firefox ! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Does (almost) nobody uses Opera? Heh, I have extravagant browser…
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This is GOOD NEWS! Rejoyce! Thanks to you, and Happy Birthday Firefox!
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Happy Birthday! Many Years to Firefox! 😛
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Happy Birthday to the best Web Browser!!!
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Great news! Happy Birhday, Firefox!
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Yup, Happy Birthday. Also – i want to report far fewer glitches, and better speed/ visuals all around with Firefox than with I-Explorer. HATS OFF to the army of nerdy, tech-focused, Foxfire contributors everywhere!
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♥♫ Happy Birthday Firefox!
We love you
Happy Birthday Firefox!
You are true
Your the king of browsers
You come shining through
We’ll never return to IE
Cuz we have you! ♥♫
The browser user stats from WC3 are here http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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Congratulations – Five Years Young ❗ – from Josef B. 😉
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Selamat Ulang Tahun “Firefox”
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Long live Firefox!
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Firefox = BEST = wordpress = …?
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Firefox – you’re one foxy browser. Happy Birthday.
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Bonne Fete!
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Give me Firefox anytime. Cheers.
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firefox rulz! happy b’day
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Happy birthday Firefox.
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happy bitrhday firefox !
you are king of browser in the world.
hope you will get more successful for the rest of the day.
best regards.
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Firefox rocks.. Happy Birthday..
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When I think of all the Nerds that wishes a Browser happy birthday I just want to…
Join them 😆
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIREFOX!
WHEN DO YOU LAUNCH THE FLEA-VERSION?
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Happy Birthday Firefox! Thanks for such a wonderful browser!
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Happy Birthday Firefox
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Sory i’m late…. 😀
happy birthday, firefox…!
i’m very love U.. 🙂
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Happy Birthday Firefox
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
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Happy Birthday Firefox, I love you full 😉
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Happy birthday!
And congratulations to Mozilla also, the “old” suite passed many users to Babybox 5 years ago 😉
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Wohoo! Happy Birthday Firefox and may you have many other lovely years to come!
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Happy Birthday, Firefox, thanks for the services, wish u greater success.
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Happy Birthday Firefox! Firefox rocks!
BTW, “…as we no longer run Google Analytics across WordPress.com.”- why is that?
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I still love you, Safari!
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Fox rocks! Happy Birthday!
i ❤ FF! xD
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It has been Firefox for me since version 1. I even have a WP entry recording my first experience with Firefox, and there’s no turning back for me ever since.
Well done Firefox!
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Of course you’re #1… we wouldn’t expect less of you …. Happy Birthday Firefox!
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Firefox FTW!
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We all love firefox
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Wow only two days separates my and Firefox’ birthday (I’m on the seventh and FF on the ninth)! Happy birthday Firefox! =D
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Happy birthday, Firefox..
although I’m using IE for every browsing usage..but I love your logo…..so sweet and nice 🙂
I hope Firefox can make a better appearance browsing as well as IE 8 .
Thanks for the place for me to drops my comment here 😉
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Happy Birthday for fine and flexible browser. Cheers!
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Happy Birthday to you FIREFOX!
(you and WordPress are the best thing about the web?!!!!!!!!!)
thank you!
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Mabuhay (Long Live) Firefox!
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First of all my heartiest best wishes to my favorite most browser Firefox on her Birthday! 🙂
Secondly, I would like we the little fellows here also get the access to browser stats like you people do have, along with many other stats most of stat provider sites presently giving us as we cannot use any Javascript code in our blogs as well. Thanks!
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Happy Birthday Firefox
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Happy Birthday Firefox!! I use Firefox for my internet and I was quite surprised when looking at the internet browsers people used to go onto my blog. For some reason, I always thought that Firefox wasn’t very popular, but your stats and my stats have proved that it is becoming increasingly popular. Go Firefox!!
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yihaaa 5 years old, awesome ^__^
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Happy Birthday! The Fox and its community rocks! Thanks for improving everyone’s web experience, including those that use that other browser.
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Happy Birthday….
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Happy Birthday Firefox
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I used to love Firefox until a few months ago. The latest version has bugs or errors that drove me crazy. I switched to Opera a month ago and am very happy. (I’d tried it before a few years ago, and it’s really improved!) I’m looking forward to the next version which will hopefully be fixed.
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Despite my increasing deviance towards Chrome nowadays, I am proud of Mozilla and Firefox. I wish you many years of good innovation, standards compliance and may you steer away from bloat.
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Happy Birthday Firefox!
I love you really much.
I love WordPress more than any other blog.
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Happy Birthday Firefox
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Happy Happy Birthday FireFox…
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What a strange thing to find out I was among the early users.
¡Feliz cumpleaños!
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Its great to know Firefox has gone past IE, and it should
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Happy Birthday Firefox
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تولدت مبارک فایرفاکس
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Happy Birthday Firefox!!!
And to WordPress team, a lot of thanks! 🙂
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happy birthday to the best browser……..thx::*:*:*:*:*
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Happy happy birthday birthday firefox firefox
Төрсөн өдрийн мэнд хүргье. FIREFOX
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STO LAT!!!! – Polish for a century more HAPPY BIRTHDAYS.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Firefox 🙂
im glad to have you
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Happy b-day fox. Go and enjoy another 5 years.
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Lots of people I know still have never heard of Firefox or don’t use it. I shout its benefits whenever I can. Happy Birthday FF.
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Happy Birthday Firefox. My favorite browser.
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HAP HAP HAP… HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! ^^
Keep on developing, fox! 🙂
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Happy birthday Firefox . Thank’s all of you give to us . God Bless you
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おめでとう!firefoxですね。
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Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Haaaappy Biiiirthdaaaay tooo youu!
Happy Birthday Firefox!
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🙂 hP b DAY
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Congrats & Best wishes!!! My favorite browser is Firefox!!!
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it is one more step for Firefox world domination … hurray!
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so much better than explorer. im not sure if i should say birthday or anniversary…no matter the case…its been 5 years of happy.
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Happy Birthday Firefox
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Happy Birthday To Firefox
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happy bday to the best browser ever. It’s pretty mature for a 5 year old.
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Feliz Cumpleaños Firefox 🙂 ! y sabes eres el navegador que mas me agrada y recomiendo !! 🙂
From Peru
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Happy open-saucing to you both!
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