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Re: [LUG] Wow FF tops

 

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:03:11 +0000
tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566779/firefox-world-browser
> Tom te tom te tom

The main reason being IE versions are counted separately whereas
firefox versions are not - itself a consequence of IE not being
available apart from the OS. Firefox doesn't need to have the counts
per version isolated because any install can be updated to the latest
version, IE cannot. (There's probably a good chance that, even with the
source, you couldn't build IE8 on XP etc.)

This could look like just fettling the figures but there is a real
substance to the different calculations - the end result is that both
fanbases can claim victory and the argument continues . . .

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