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By Alex in Blog & Internet, Car & Vehicle, Pictures on Sep 25, 2007 at 4:20 pm



Photo: nobihaya [Flickr]

First comes the dog, then the crop circle, and then the credit card … now, feast your eyes on the Firefox Car! The car was debuted at the Mozilla 24 "Firefox Rock Festival" in Tokyo on Sept 15, 2007.

Link [Flickr] – Thanks Mikolka!

Neatorama readers are pretty savvy: 27.4% of you use the Firefox browser, slightly ahead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (27.3%). Only 4.1% and 1.3% use Safari and Opera, respectively.

Most people who have trouble viewing Neatorama at one point or another use IE, so I fully encourage you all to switch (I use Firefox myself). Get


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  1. elliot
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    what do the other 40% of people use?

  2. Alex
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    Here's the breakdown, elliot:

    Unknown 34.2 %
    Firefox 27.4 %
    MS Internet Explorer 27.3 %
    Safari 4.1 %
    Mozilla 2.3 %
    Opera 1.3 %
    Netscape 0.4 %

  3. skh.pcola
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    It's a shame that more folks don't use Opera. It's quicker and has less "bloat" than Firefox. I use FF on my school's website, but Opera otherwise.

    That's a VERY large % of "Unknown." Any idea why?

  4. Justin
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    Could it be older or newer versions of an internet browser?

    How did you figure out what browser people are using?

  5. Ali S.
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    When I saw that Firefox car the first thing that popped into my head was the "Knight Rider" theme song. ;)

  6. elliot
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    Ok, interesting stats. Where would you find out that kinda thing for the total internet? Like, what percentage firefox/opera actually get compared to IE?

  7. Vexorg
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    The other 40% are using Lynx, apparently. Plain text FTW!

  8. Chris
    Sep 25th, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    Alex cannot see the 40% 'caus he has a Firefox sticker on his screen.
    The Firefox car driver reported the same problem with incoming traffic.

    :p

  9. Dan
    Sep 26th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    Actually, Firefox is safer _IF_ you install the addons Flashblock, NoScript and Adblock Plus.

    Otherwise, Opera has the best safety history of about 60 vulnerabilities since 1995, whereas IE has about 400 in that same time period.

    Firefox also has about 400 in the short time it has been around (4 years?) but because of the above addons, is much safer than IE. (Not to mention, actualy W3C standard...)

  10. Dan
    Sep 26th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

    i gotta stop using firefox, who makes their company whip a CELICA?

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