3 years of Firefox theme development

Yup last Thursday January 12th I celebrated 3 years of Firefox theme development. I would like to thank you users of all the support throughout these 3 years, the amo editors, those of you who donated and those who downloaded and tried my themes. I have ten themes, 523 288 users and 8 385 077 total theme downloads which in my opinion is a pretty good result.

Also I haven't been posting here lately because I was way to busy with real life problems and stuff and when I find time I am spending more time on my web-site project http://web-goodies.comli.com/ If you want to find more information about how my theme development started visit this page: Click

Happy holidays Mozilla! Chrome beats Firefox on December?

I have been following this whole who's the most popular browser statics thing and recently I have come across something interesting. The internet is full with topics such as Chrome beats Firefox on December 2011. Here's a popularity diagram which shows how many people worldwide use IE, Firefox, Chome and other browsers.

I've taken the text in italics from a topic on the internet :
If you’ll check statcounter’s global stat graph, you can see the plotted green line (chrome) is growing steadily for the previous years hitting 23.6% share (we’re talking the percentage of worldwide users here) while Firefox continues to dip. If the projections are correct, we should expect Google’s browser to beat Firefox on December having a share of 26.6% while Mozilla Firefox at 25.3%.

However, it’s not clear though if this chart represents the totality of all Chrome versions and Firefox releases including 3.5. Then again, this is not really a cause of surprise since Chrome already beat the orange browser in UK last July.

If you can still remember, we reported on December 2009 that Firefox 3.5 is the most popular browser at that time. But within a span of two years, it’s bound to lose its spot to number 3 already. Obviously, everyone’s wondering if there’s a chance Chrome will beat Internet Explorer staying ahead on the lead at 41% in the near future.

We’ll see! 


The text in italics has been taken from http://pinoytutorial.com but you can find the same articles all over the internet.


My opinion is that Mozilla should do something about this. They should stop coping design of other browsers and come up with something fresh and new, something which nobody has experienced yet. I don't like Chrome because it's way too simple looking and it is not that fast compared to Firefox as well. On the other hand in Firefox you can change the appearance however you like. Tabs on top - 2 clicks and bam. Tiny menu - 2 clicks and bam you have it.

What's your opinion on this? Will Chrome be the 2nd most popular browser after IE? Leave your interesting responses in the comments below! : )

How many Firefox users have add-ons installed? 85%!

The revamped Add-ons Manager in Firefox 4 provides a rich experience for add-on discovery and management, and to power that service Mozilla receives aggregate data on add-on usage. We previously estimated that at least a third of Firefox users had chosen to install an add-on, but knew the number was higher than that.
We’re very excited to report that 85% of Firefox 4 users have chosen to install an add-on — that’s more than 60 million users every day! This number doesn’t include Personas, and even excludes popular add-ons bundled with other software that the user hasn’t actively agreed to install.

Firefox 4 desktop add-on usage from March 22 through June 19, 2011, excluding Personas and several commonly-bundled add-ons

When we first saw this number, we expected it to drop as more and more users upgraded to Firefox 4; remarkably, it has stayed between 89% and 85% since launch in March. It’s also interesting to note that on the weekends when Firefox (and Internet) usage slumps, the percentage of users with add-ons increases, indicating those who browse on weekends are more likely to have customized Firefox.
We’ve also learned that on average, users have 5 add-ons installed, with the following distribution:

Firefox 4 desktop add-on distribution from June 19, 2011, excluding Personas and several commonly-bundled add-ons

With more than 2.5 billion downloads and 580 million add-ons in use every day in Firefox 4 alone, there’s no better time to browse our gallery and make Firefox your own.

Source:http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/

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