Firefox Friday Five (3.6!!!)

Filed under: Internet, Features, Mozilla, Browsers

Phew! What a week for the Firefox!

With this flurry of activity things, you'd expect things to calm down for a little... but no! Mozilla will try to capitalize on their new fleet-footed approach to updates and minor revisions. With Chrome now barking at its heels and Microsoft's IE9 likely to arrive this year, it's never been more important for Firefox to keep its lead.

Let's start with the best one:

1. Government warnings about Internet Explorer cause massive influx of Firefox downloads

Lee, like the great impartial reporter that he is, pointed out that there were lots of Firefox and Opera downloads -- but as always when talking about Opera, it's on the same scale as a tiny, uninhabited Pacific island, so let's just go with the Firefox statistic.

Basically, the governments of Germany, France and Australia told its citizens to dump Internet Explorer... and that's what they did! From Firefox's usual 50,000 downloads a day, they spiked up to 200,000!

(It's worth noting that IE has now been patched and is safe again... but for how long?!)

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