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Main on March 24th, 2011 by Pingdom
As you no doubt have noticed by now, Mozilla launched Firefox 4 this week. It was downloaded 7.1 million times in the first 24 hours, and is now up to 15 million downloads and counting. We figured a Firefox infographic would be nice to celebrate this event, so we made one for you. We hope you like it!
Finally, a note on Firefox web browser market share, since those numbers tend to vary depending on your source.
Depending on who you ask, Firefox currently has a worldwide market share of anywhere from 22% to 31% (the former according to Net Applications, the latter according to StatCounter). The difference mostly depends on which websites make up the sample. Also worth noting is that when you look at individual countries, Firefox market share can be significantly higher than this. In Germany, for example, Firefox has more than 60% of the web browser market according to StatCounter. Ze Germans do like their Firefox.
Want to test your site every minute?
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Perceptions matter, and the perception of Nokia in the news, on the web, and in the minds of many, is that things aren’t going that well. Even in the Pingdom office, we hear “Nokia is doomed,” but do the numbers support this belief?
Looking at the statistics, Symbian leads the mobile operating system race with just over 30% of web browsing traffic. That’s down slightly from late last year, when we noted that Symbian finished 2011 as the top mobile operating system, with almost 34% of the mobile OS market.
What is even more interesting, however, is that Nokia is also ahead when we look at figures for all the mobile handset vendors. In fact, Nokia is way ahead of Apple, and Android lags far behind.
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Podcast on February 19th, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, we talk mainly about Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Some fresh research shows an increase in smaller, more targeted DDoS attacks, and hacker group Anonymous has vowed to take down the Internet by launching a DDoS attack on the 13 root DNS servers.
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Main on February 17th, 2012 by Pingdom
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.
This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on OpenStack.
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Main on February 16th, 2012 by Pingdom
By some measures, more than 7 billion people now inhabit the world, and more than a third of us are on the Internet. But how many are added each day, each week, or each minute? We think we have a pretty good idea.
Read on for some pretty amazing numbers.
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Podcast on February 15th, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, we can finally talk about Saleh’s Carbon for Windows Phone app being available in Windows Marketplace. We also talk to Rich Brueckner of InsideHPC.com about the world of supercomputers.
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Youfan
March 25th, 2011 at 4:46 am
Indonesia is in number 6. No Malaysia.
TambelanBlog
March 29th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Its great news, congratulation for Firefox 4. I had using it already while chrome as my favorite one.
I think Indonesia its pretty antusiasm with Firefox and Internet Activity.
Bravo.
Christina
April 7th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I have downloaded it, and like it. Very user friendly and a remarkable decrease in crashes. So far, I am sold on it. Congrats to the firefox team!