Browser war, how have I missed thee.
Looks like Firefox is hitting the 50 million downloads mark along with a decent contest. That is pretty exciting considering it is a relatively new kid on the browser block.
Now 50 million downloads and we have 7% or show of our users on the home page using it. So what is the big deal? Well considering most lab and staff computers have no choice, what would happen if they did? If your lab machines run Firefox let me know, and let me know when you made it available. If it is going to be in the future then I can see if that impacts the average on the home page.
Microsoft may never admit it, but the growing popularity and potential of Firefox likely forced their IE team into gear. IE 7 is being promised in Beta by summer along with some encouraging features, albiet expected features that most CSS web folks have figured out work arounds for.
The buzz that comes from a new browser and its popularity may be encouraging innovation in other places. That is a good thing™. Dave Hyatt looks to have Safari passing the Acid Test 2 pretty soon and I bet other browsers are looking to as well. Netscape is revived with a bloated version 8 and Javascript is the coolest thing going.
Hrm, browser war that never ended has certainly flared up again and that is pretty cool.