At the risk of turning this into a two-topic blog (Mozilla/Firefox and Politics seem to be all I’m writing about these days), Mozilla has been enjoying a bit of a surge in popularity since the announcement last week warning users away from Microsoft’s IE browser.
In the wake of increasing frustration with IE’s shortcomings and security vulnerabilities, downloads of Mozilla and Firefox have been steadily increasing with a user base roughly doubling every few months.
That’s great news. People are starting to figure out and really get what us web geeks have known and have been preaching for some time. Here’s some more links:
Joel on Software weights in: Three reasons to switch web browsers today.
Business Week: Internet Explorer is just too risky.