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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by sosuke on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:16PM (#990251)
Why don't these graphs ever break down into the major versions of Firefox? I know there is still testing done on 1.5, 2.x and then of course 3.x as the current version. Why break down IE, Opera and Netscape but not Firefox or Safari?
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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by maukdaddy on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:34PM (#990288)
Because it makes the Firefox share look larger.
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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by mbrubeck on Friday December 11, 2009 @03:08PM (#990348)
It seems to be based on this dataset, which doesn't provide a breakdown of Firefox versions: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Note that this is from w3schools.com, not w3.org (a completely different site). This is for a web developer audience, so it kind of makes sense; from a developer point of view there are much bigger differences in standards compliance between IE versions than between Firefox versions. But mostly they just seem to want to keep a small number of columns on that page.

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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by micrypt on Saturday December 12, 2009 @08:30AM (#991494)
It also appears like Chrome is eating into Firefox's market share.
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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by jswinghammer on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:19PM (#990256)
Maybe the assumption is that people are just auto-updating these.
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Re:The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings by lmkg on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:26PM (#990272)
They stopped breaking down opera after 8.
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