Browser War II

Colby Cosh examined the breakdown of browser users who clicked on Instapundit, one of the most heavily trafficked Web sites and blogs, and found that 15 percent of its visitors used Firefox. That's about five times the rate of the market as a whole.

Who clicks on Instapundit? Some of the most hard-core Web users and blog readers, that's who. Noted Cosh:

The response to Cosh's observation was what you might expect, including, as he noted, one Web developer who said this:

Of course, Firefox is about more than tabs. It can be viewed as more RSS-friendly, more secure and simply more elegant than IE. Blogger Trevor Bauknight put it this way:

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And think, Microsoft gives IE away for free.

Browser market-share numbers might not move the financial markets as they did in the late '90s, but if the numbers keep moving in Firefox's direction, expect the rhetoric--and innovation--to heat up.