Burrowowl

Many of us in the Internet Technology community had a looming, growing concern regarding Firefox, the web browser based on Netscape and Mozilla’s “Gecko” rendering engine. A great deal of hype has flown hither and thither across the ‘net regarding this product, including a little from me. The growing concern was not regarding glaring security issues or the viability of a wildly-popular-but-free software package, but rather one of popularity. No self-respecting Unix-using, pocket-protector-wearing, pencil-neck computer geek wants to schlep around on the web using the same browser as the unwashed plebian masses. Rest easy, o geeky one: Firefox’s recent gains in widespread usage have come to a halt. That’s right, for reasons surpassing understanding, the vastly-inferior Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer, has regained a portion of its lost market share, and is once again weighing in as the browser-of-actual-use for 87.2% of web usage. Fly your freak-flag high, Firefox users: your browser’s position of obscurity is safe, for now.