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Pingdom on July 6th, 2009 by Pingdom
For those of you who use our Mr. Uptime Firefox extension, we just wanted to let you know that we have updated it for Firefox 3.5.
The update was submitted to Mozilla last Friday and is pending approval, but you can already download it directly from the Mr. Uptime website. (It’s free, as it always has been.)
For those of you who don’t know what Mr. Uptime is, it’s a Firefox extension from us here at Pingdom that will tell you when a broken website is working again.
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Main on May 11th, 2009 by Pingdom
We know there are a lot of people out there who love Firefox (including us here at Pingdom), so here is a whole bunch of really nice Firefox-themed wallpapers that you can adorn your desktop with.
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Posted in
Guest posts on May 8th, 2009 by Pingdom
You may remember our April Fool’s joke this year: SaveIE6.com. Want to hear something cool? The petition on that website now has more than 1,000 signatures. 
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Main on February 5th, 2009 by Pingdom
This week Netcraft reported that there are now 1 million websites with valid SSL certificates on the Web. Only certificates issued by trusted third parties were included in this number.
In a study by Venafi from 2007 (referenced here), 18% of the Fortune 1000 websites had expired SSL certificates. If that ratio still holds true, and holds true for the rest of the Web as well, it means that in addition to the 1 million websites with valid SSL certificates there are 219,000 websites with expired SSL certificates.
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Main on January 22nd, 2009 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2008?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many blog posts were published? This post will answer those questions and many others with more interesting statistics than you can shake a stick at.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested.
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