Firefox 2.0

When EP launched in January this year a little more than half of you were using Macs. As traffic grew that percentage fell consistently, though now it's rising again, slightly—16.3% as of yesterday—while overall traffic continues to grow. I don't know whether that may mean there's some switching to Mac going on, or if it's just noise. Anyhow, a large number of you have always, regardless of platform, been using Firefox, which also happens to be my favorite browser. Again, as of yesterday, that'd be 31.9%, with 44.3% using Internet Explorer and 6.8% using Safari. Later today, Mozilla officially comes out with Firefox 2.0, which actually became available via FTP server yesterday. It's a nice upgrade, I'm genuinely enthused, and for all of you who aren't using Firefox I urge you to give it a try. On my windows box, btw, I'm using the newly released Internet Explorer 7, which will be Firefox 2.0's direct competition and, trying to overlook my bias of having always thought Firefox better, from using the two I think Firefox still maintains its edge.