Happy Birthday Firefox
November 9th 2009 is Firefox’s fifth birthday. Firefox and WordPress have grown up next to each other so we’ve always felt a brethren spirit with their team as we work toward the same goal, making the web a better place, from opposite ends of the spectrum.
Just out of curiosity, I wondered how Firefox was doing in our browser stats compared to the posts I did in 2008 and 2007.
- Firefox — 45.7%
- Internet Explorer — 38.7%
- Safari — 8.75%
- Chrome — 5.2%
This is the first time I’ve ever seen Firefox pass IE in market share for a mainstream audience like WordPress.com has.
As you can see, competition in the browser market is still alive and well. Of everything available, Firefox still continues to be my primary browser for every day usage. (And Thunderbird for my email.)
Take a few minutes and wish them a happy birthday.
(The statistics were tabulated from server access logs and include WordPress.com users as well as visitors, as we no longer run Google Analytics across WordPress.com.)
Nov 9th at 6:48 pm
Happy Birthday Firefox! \o/
Nov 9th at 7:29 pm
LoL.. Happy Birthday!
Nov 9th at 7:33 pm
Hey, Happy Birthday Firefox!
Nov 9th at 7:47 pm
Congratulations. Five years old!!!!
Nov 9th at 7:55 pm
Happy birthday, from a happy Firefox user!
Nov 9th at 7:56 pm
Happy B’day Firefox! Firefox rocks! I just can’t live without Firefox! Unfortunately, there are people unlike us [who are with IE]! I don’t use Thunderbird though.
I also checked browser stats for my last 500 hits [free account with Statcounter] and the data doesn’t make me happy! We Indians will take a lot more time in discarding IE [my blog has mostly Indian visitors, ~ 56 %]!
IE 6: 24.4 %
IE7: 17.80 %
IE8: 13.20 %
IE 1.5: 0.40 %
Firefox 3.0: 16.40 %
Firefox 2.0: 2 %
Firefox 1.5: 0.40 %
Chrome: 9.20 %
Opera: 0.40 %
Nov 9th at 8:05 pm
firfox alwayw on fire
Nov 9th at 8:06 pm
Yay for Firefox!
Nov 9th at 8:09 pm
I LOVE FIREFOX , happy birthday , wish i could buy it a gift lol
Nov 9th at 8:13 pm
happy birthday…….
Nov 9th at 8:16 pm
Happy birthday Firefox !
Nov 9th at 8:22 pm
Does (almost) nobody uses Opera? Heh, I have extravagant browser…
Nov 9th at 8:31 pm
This is GOOD NEWS! Rejoyce! Thanks to you, and Happy Birthday Firefox!
Nov 9th at 8:41 pm
Happy Birthday! Many Years to Firefox!
Nov 9th at 8:59 pm
Happy Birthday to the best Web Browser!!!
Nov 9th at 9:05 pm
Great news! Happy Birhday, Firefox!
Nov 9th at 9:09 pm
Yup, Happy Birthday. Also – i want to report far fewer glitches, and better speed/ visuals all around with Firefox than with I-Explorer. HATS OFF to the army of nerdy, tech-focused, Foxfire contributors everywhere!
Nov 9th at 9:16 pm
♥♫ Happy Birthday Firefox!
We love you
Happy Birthday Firefox!
You are true
Your the king of browsers
You come shining through
We’ll never return to IE
Cuz we have you! ♥♫
The browser user stats from WC3 are here http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Nov 9th at 9:18 pm
Congratulations – Five Years Young
– from Josef B. 
Nov 9th at 9:35 pm
Selamat Ulang Tahun “Firefox”
Nov 9th at 9:36 pm
Long live Firefox!
Nov 9th at 9:40 pm
Firefox = BEST = wordpress = …?
Nov 9th at 9:57 pm
Firefox – you’re one foxy browser. Happy Birthday.
Nov 9th at 10:15 pm
Bonne Fete!
Nov 9th at 10:25 pm
Give me Firefox anytime. Cheers.
Nov 9th at 10:30 pm
firefox rulz! happy b’day
Nov 9th at 10:35 pm
Happy birthday Firefox.
Nov 9th at 10:49 pm
happy bitrhday firefox !
you are king of browser in the world.
hope you will get more successful for the rest of the day.
best regards.
Nov 9th at 10:50 pm
Firefox rocks.. Happy Birthday..
Nov 9th at 11:34 pm
When I think of all the Nerds that wishes a Browser happy birthday I just want to…
Join them
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIREFOX!
WHEN DO YOU LAUNCH THE FLEA-VERSION?
Nov 9th at 11:34 pm
Happy Birthday Firefox! Thanks for such a wonderful browser!
Nov 9th at 11:48 pm
Happy Birthday Firefox
Nov 9th at 11:49 pm
Sory i’m late….
happy birthday, firefox…!
i’m very love U..
Nov 10th at 12:02 am
Happy Birthday Firefox
Nov 10th at 12:22 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Nov 10th at 12:33 am
Happy Birthday Firefox, I love you full
Nov 10th at 12:33 am
Happy birthday!
And congratulations to Mozilla also, the “old” suite passed many users to Babybox 5 years ago
Nov 10th at 1:33 am
Wohoo! Happy Birthday Firefox and may you have many other lovely years to come!
Nov 10th at 1:33 am
Happy Birthday, Firefox, thanks for the services, wish u greater success.
Nov 10th at 1:34 am
Happy Birthday Firefox! Firefox rocks!
BTW, “…as we no longer run Google Analytics across WordPress.com.”- why is that?
Nov 10th at 2:01 am
I still love you, Safari!
Nov 10th at 2:07 am
Fox rocks! Happy Birthday!
i <3 FF! xD
Nov 10th at 2:25 am
It has been Firefox for me since version 1. I even have a WP entry recording my first experience with Firefox, and there’s no turning back for me ever since.
Well done Firefox!
Nov 10th at 2:53 am
Of course you’re #1… we wouldn’t expect less of you …. Happy Birthday Firefox!
Nov 10th at 2:56 am
Firefox FTW!
Nov 10th at 3:37 am
We all love firefox
Nov 10th at 3:59 am
Wow only two days separates my and Firefox’ birthday (I’m on the seventh and FF on the ninth)! Happy birthday Firefox! =D
Nov 10th at 4:18 am
Happy birthday, Firefox..
although I’m using IE for every browsing usage..but I love your logo…..so sweet and nice
I hope Firefox can make a better appearance browsing as well as IE 8 .
Thanks for the place for me to drops my comment here
Nov 10th at 4:33 am
Happy Birthday for fine and flexible browser. Cheers!
Nov 10th at 4:34 am
Happy Birthday to you FIREFOX!
(you and WordPress are the best thing about the web?!!!!!!!!!)
thank you!
Nov 10th at 4:38 am
Mabuhay (Long Live) Firefox!
Nov 10th at 4:46 am
First of all my heartiest best wishes to my favorite most browser Firefox on her Birthday!
Secondly, I would like we the little fellows here also get the access to browser stats like you people do have, along with many other stats most of stat provider sites presently giving us as we cannot use any Javascript code in our blogs as well. Thanks!
Nov 10th at 4:51 am
Happy Birthday Firefox
Nov 10th at 5:05 am
Happy Birthday Firefox!! I use Firefox for my internet and I was quite surprised when looking at the internet browsers people used to go onto my blog. For some reason, I always thought that Firefox wasn’t very popular, but your stats and my stats have proved that it is becoming increasingly popular. Go Firefox!!
Nov 10th at 5:07 am
yihaaa 5 years old, awesome ^__^
Nov 10th at 5:16 am
Happy Birthday! The Fox and its community rocks! Thanks for improving everyone’s web experience, including those that use that other browser.
Nov 10th at 5:21 am
Happy Birthday….
Nov 10th at 5:26 am
Happy Birthday Firefox
Nov 10th at 6:01 am
I used to love Firefox until a few months ago. The latest version has bugs or errors that drove me crazy. I switched to Opera a month ago and am very happy. (I’d tried it before a few years ago, and it’s really improved!) I’m looking forward to the next version which will hopefully be fixed.
Nov 10th at 6:16 am
Despite my increasing deviance towards Chrome nowadays, I am proud of Mozilla and Firefox. I wish you many years of good innovation, standards compliance and may you steer away from bloat.
Nov 10th at 6:21 am
Happy Birthday Firefox!
I love you really much.
I love WordPress more than any other blog.
Nov 10th at 6:45 am
Happy Birthday Firefox
Nov 10th at 8:13 am
Happy Happy Birthday FireFox…
Nov 10th at 8:36 am
What a strange thing to find out I was among the early users.
¡Feliz cumpleaños!
Nov 10th at 9:03 am
Its great to know Firefox has gone past IE, and it should
Nov 10th at 9:09 am
Happy Birthday Firefox
Nov 10th at 9:29 am
تولدت مبارک فایرفاکس
Nov 10th at 9:44 am
Happy Birthday Firefox!!!
And to WordPress team, a lot of thanks!
Nov 10th at 10:39 am
happy birthday to the best browser……..thx::*:*:*:*:*
Nov 10th at 10:45 am
Happy happy birthday birthday firefox firefox
Төрсөн өдрийн мэнд хүргье. FIREFOX
Nov 10th at 10:55 am
STO LAT!!!! – Polish for a century more HAPPY BIRTHDAYS.
Nov 10th at 11:44 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Firefox
im glad to have you
Nov 10th at 11:48 am
Happy b-day fox. Go and enjoy another 5 years.
Nov 10th at 12:03 pm
Lots of people I know still have never heard of Firefox or don’t use it. I shout its benefits whenever I can. Happy Birthday FF.
Nov 10th at 12:49 pm
Happy Birthday Firefox. My favorite browser.
Nov 10th at 1:16 pm
HAP HAP HAP… HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! ^^
Keep on developing, fox!
Nov 10th at 2:35 pm
Happy birthday Firefox . Thank’s all of you give to us . God Bless you
Nov 10th at 3:17 pm
おめでとう！firefoxですね。
Nov 10th at 3:48 pm
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Haaaappy Biiiirthdaaaay tooo youu!
Happy Birthday Firefox!
Nov 10th at 3:56 pm
Nov 10th at 4:35 pm
Congrats & Best wishes!!! My favorite browser is Firefox!!!
Nov 10th at 4:43 pm
it is one more step for Firefox world domination … hurray!
Nov 10th at 4:56 pm
so much better than explorer. im not sure if i should say birthday or anniversary…no matter the case…its been 5 years of happy.
Nov 10th at 5:11 pm
Happy Birthday Firefox
Nov 10th at 5:39 pm
Happy Birthday To Firefox
Nov 10th at 6:05 pm
happy bday to the best browser ever. It’s pretty mature for a 5 year old.
Nov 10th at 6:20 pm
Feliz Cumpleaños Firefox
! y sabes eres el navegador que mas me agrada y recomiendo !! 
From Peru
Nov 10th at 7:43 pm
Happy open-saucing to you both!