Oct 13, 2006 4:42 PM

Wired News Readers Prefer Firefox

I just wanted to take a moment to share the browser breakdown among visitors to Wired News: Firefox: 44% Internet Explorer: 40% Safari: 11% Opera: 2% Mozilla: 2% The favorite browser among Wired News readers is Firefox. We can’t share the breakdown across all versions of each user agent, but those are some pretty striking […]

I just wanted to take a moment to share the browser breakdown among visitors to Wired News:

Firefox: 44%
Internet Explorer: 40%
Safari: 11%
Opera: 2%
Mozilla: 2%

The favorite browser among Wired News readers is Firefox. We can't share the breakdown across all versions of each user agent, but those are some pretty striking category numbers.

Previously:
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Why Internet Explorer 7 Will Break the Web

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