On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:58:56 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:
> "Ezekiel" <zeke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Celebrate 1 billion Firefox downloads
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>> And 999,998,000,000 of the downloads have been Firefox for Windows.
>> That's why Firefox for Windows runs much faster than the Linux version.
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> Somewhere on the order of 1 billion is the size of the entire installed
> base of PC world-wide. If Firefox has had such a download experience,
> why have so many of these installation fallen into disuse? Do people
> actually prefer IE once they have Firefox installed and cease using
> Firefox? Or are they just reluctant to do much web surfing and IE users
> are much more prolific? There must be some reason.
Another way to look at that is... why are so many people downloading,
installing, and USING Firefox when IE is pre-installed?
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Rick
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