Jean-Marc Desperrier:
The second number hardly actually proves anything. In what I describe,
users will continue to use Firefox most of the time, and switch to IE
only for broken SSL sites.
Believe me, I have counts of web site owners "fixing" their web sites
because of the mounting complaints they receive from Firefox users. The
second number proves that overall usage continues to grow despite. It's
an important fact to recognize (and we would be in trouble if it would
be the other way around, we'd have to make some hard thinking).
But change of decade old behavior doesn't disappear within a night. Give
it a chance! It's just a few month since the FF3 release and the effects
are starting to show (in a positive way). We can't really judge in such
a short term, except that market share hasn't declined.
The first number is more interesting, you actually got a statistically
significant percentage of people correcting their site after the Fx 3
release ?
Yes, I have testimonies of scores of web site owners fixing their sites
and getting third-party issued certificates. And I'm almost certain that
the other CAs see the same. It's a clear tendency!
Actually it took a few short weeks for the effect to seep in, but the
trend is very steady and growing. And note that we haven't changed our
offerings during that time.
My personnal evidence might be anecdotical but it's massive.
Thorsten Becker had actual numbers showing the decline in ff usage and
that switching the browser was the number 1 reactions of users in
http://groups.google.fr/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/msg/7e1680e605ab8228
Well, this is a different problem and this problem will be solved.
Despite that, http://www.xitimonitor.com/ has testimony to a growing
market share of Firefox in Europe, including Germany. Go figure...
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