Firefox 2 Users to Get Firefox 3 Update Notification Soon
Those of you who are still using Firefox 2 should be getting the update notification in the next week saying that Firefox 3 is available for download. Mozilla would obviously like all of their users to upgrade to the latest version of the browser, but the real question is whether they will.
I thought this would be a good time to look at the visitor stats for our site, and see which versions of each browser everyone is using. Here’s the breakdown from August 1st, 2008 to today:
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Firefox: 54.75%
- 3.0.1: 68.26%
- 2.0.0.16: 19.96%
- 3.0: 5.08%
- 2.0.0.14: 1.72%
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Internet Explorer: 36.03%
- 7.0: 70.38%
- 6.0: 29.14%
- 8.0: 0.39%
- 5.5: 0.05%
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Opera: 4.41%
- 9.51: 63.22%
- 9.50: 12.20%
- 9.52: 9.59%
- 9.27: 4.08%
Not bad, huh? Only about 25% of you haven’t upgraded to the latest version of Firefox… which is almost the same percentage that haven’t upgraded to Internet Explorer 7. IE7, on the other hand, was released almost 2-years ago as opposed to Firefox 3 that was released just 2-months ago.
I’m sure you have your reasons for not upgrading to Firefox 3 (broken extensions, don’t need/want the extra features, etc…), but will you be changing your mind in the next week or so when the automatic upgrade rolls around? If you won’t be making the jump to Firefox 3 I’d definitely be interested to hear your reasoning in the comments.
Mozilla Weekly Meeting Notes [via Download Squad]
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I was wondering how that was going to be done, well thats cool.
I’m a bit surprised that it has taken this long, but I guess they’d want to get a few releases in to squash some of the more critical bugs first.
I won’t be upgrading anytime soon, at least not until they fix the font issue, i Hope FireFox keeps updating FF2.x
From the Mozilla site:
“Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.”
Looks like you have until the end of the year.
I’m the extended family computer support person, and, a while back, I got everyone dependent upon Google Browser Sync. Since Google has abandoned this feature, I’m holding them back on Firefox 2 until I find something equivalent. The only hurdle is transparent password synchronization.
(FYI: *I* stopped using Google Browser Sync a while back. All my passwords are stored in KeyPass, encrypted on my thumb drive, with some of the trivial ones also stored on-line at clipperz.com.)
I am waiting to see If someone comes up with a method to stop Firefox from using IE7 or for the misinformed the Windows security zone settings. I cannot remove IE7 and I refuse to lower my security settings for IE7 in order to use Firefox. If I can’t find a work-around by mid December when support for FF2 ends. I will move to another browser.
For me it’s extensions. Does anyone else find it ridiculous that extensions like TabMix Plus still don’t have a final version ready for FF3? It’s not like they didn’t have plenty of time to work on it, they knew FF3 was coming. Yeah not Mozilla’s problem, I know. I’m getting tired of coming to depend on certain extensions only to have the developers either abandon them completely or take forever to update them. It may be time to break for Opera.
I tried [tmp.garyr.net] and it works fine for me. The only extension I’m still missing is Paste and Go.
Yeah I’m aware of the development build but I’d rather have a final version. I too am waiting for Paste and Go, but it appears to have been abandoned by the developer. Hence my frustration in my previous comment.
That is definitely crazy that they haven’t released a supported version. Their development build that supports Firefox 3 has been out for a long time, and I can’t believe it isn’t stable enough to be released as the final one.
A compatible version of Paste and Go 2 can be found here:
[forums.mozillazine.org]
You could also switch to Paste to tab:
[addons.mozilla.org]
While Tabmix Plus dev version works fine, I decided to abandon the extension because of the slow development and install separate extensions for what I need, probably saving resources at the same time.