Is Firefox 3 The New King?

It’s been just a couple of days since Mozilla released their new version of the popular web browser Firefox 3. This new browser is really given Internet users a new experience when surfing the web.

It is really incredible how much downloads this product had during these days; I have noticed especially when I check my blog stats. Currently 62% of my readers are using right now Firefox 3. It really makes me think that stats around the world saying that Internet Explorer is the most popular browser.

According to the stats that I took from one of my blogs, 92% of my visits use Firefox to browse my blog and only 5% used Internet Explorer. Probably the stats that are in favor of Internet Explorer are because they are counting that most us the PC users around the world have Windows as operating system and Internet Explorer is installed by default on that system and it is used even to locate folders and files stored in your hard drive.

After reviewing the stats of browsers that are most used on my blog, I checked the operating systems stats that users currently have installed in their PCs here is another interesting detail… most of the users have Windows as operating system, they are using Windows with Firefox.

This makes me have some simple but useful conclusions. People around the world are using Firefox because it is a faster and more secure browser than Internet Explorer. Even if Internet Explorer comes factory installed by Microsoft in Windows operating systems user don’t really like the browser because of security and incompatibilities in many sites. Firefox passed with a score of 100% the Acid Test 2 and with 71% the Acid Test 3, this means that the browser is more compatible with the W3 standards that other browsers.

Even if Microsoft does an excellent work with their new version of Internet Explorer 8 they are not going to have as many users for Internet browsing as Firefox.

Up to the moment of this post Firefox 3 had over 13 million downloads. Could all this mean this mean that Internet Explorer days for web browsing are count?