Government warnings push people to download Firefox

On 01.21.10, In Coding, by Tim Groeneveld

Internet Exploader After warnings coming from the German government, French government and the Australian Government, it seems that the guys from the Mozilla Blog of Metrics have seen a massive increase in people wanting to download Firefox. 300,000 people in a four day period more then expected! All this with no advertising, let’s not forget!

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After warnings coming from the German government, French government and the Australian Government, it seems that the guys from the Mozilla Blog of Metrics have seen a massive increase in people wanting to download Firefox. 300,000 people in a four day period more then expected! All this with no advertising, let’s not forget!

What has been the impact on Firefox and the Mozilla community? Looking at the chart below, we can see that over the past few days there has been a huge increase in the number of Firefox downloads from IE users in Germany.

Mozilla Firefox Downloads after Government's IE warning

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Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld is a code monkey specialising in PHP, MySQL and web server load balancing/clustering. Currently working at Digital Pacific, he spends his days either fixing up other peoples issues or madly hacking away at this weeks project. Nothing tickles Tim more then running the latest version of all his favorite software. When not working, Tim is sitting at home playing with "The Beast".

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