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Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut

Summary: Firefox 6 just launched last week, and new research already sees the latest version of Mozilla's browser accounting for a significant fraction of traffic.

Rachel King

By for Between the Lines |

Firefox 6 officially debuted last week with a host of new features and security fixes. Internet users must already be flocking to the latest version of Mozilla's browser at a rapid pace -- at least according to Chitika Insights (a.ka. the research arm of online advertising network Chitika).

After Chitika took a look at all U.S. and Canadian traffic between August 16 and 22, the survey found that Firefox 6 has already garnered at least eight percent of the total traffic from browsers and approximately 45 percent of all Firefox-stemming traffic.

However, don't get too excited for Firefox 6 just yet. Chitika found that the growth rate for Firefox 6 is starting to taper off, likely due to the fact that all of the early adopters have already downloaded and started using Firefox 6. That means that Mozilla has some work to do in order to get other Firefox users and beyond to jump on this version now.

Interestingly, Chitika also found that Firefox 6 usage peaks during the morning and at the end of the day, but very early morning hours tend to belong to Internet Explorer. Yet, this phenomenon is only relevant to Firefox 6 and not previous editions of the software. It's not clear what Mozilla could try to do to make up for this gap -- except maybe start some kind of advertising campaign targeted at night owls and graveyard shift employees.

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  • RE: Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut

    [i]Internet users must already be flocking to the latest version of Mozilla?s browser at a rapid pace[/i]

    Doesn't FF5 auto update to FF6? I'm pretty sure mine did since I'm now running 6 and haven't done a manual install of it.
    Badgered
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    • RE: Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut

      @Badgered - need a copy of ver 5? did it bog your machine down? are you still happy tomorrow?
      photomstr@...
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      • RE: Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut

        @photomstr@...
        @Badgered was stating a hypothesis to counter the sensational statement in the article... you on the other hand are trolling... Never once did @Badgered complain about the performance of Firefox 6...He could be sad tomorrow and continue love Firefox 6!
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    • RE: Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut

      @Badgered Luckily mine does not! I use a security add-on that does not work with FF6. I will remain with FF5 until FF6 is supported, or I get sick of it, and go to IE.

      I used to be a technophile, and go with latest releases, etc. But as I grown older I don't want to battle with constant change, for change's sake.

      The browser is a tool! If it stops doing what I want I'll use a different tool.
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  • The Firefox 7 beta seems fine also.

    I just wish they'd put the Release number back in the About box.
    peter_erskine@...
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  • RE: Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut

    The auto updates account for that certainly, not because ver 6 is any good. Slowed my machines right down. Fortunately I keep copies of older successful installs and I dumped it back for ver 5 and killed auto updates . firefox - rapidly going where no browser should go . . .
    photomstr@...
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  • RE: Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut

    I had to upgrade to the experimental version of Stylish before I upgrade Firefox 5 to Firefox 6.

    Withholding the upgrade to Firefox 6 due to extensions not compatible with Firefox 6 can be the reason, so the advertising campaign is unneeded.
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