Firefox's Version Differentiation May Affect Its Future Development

It is reported that as some users do not have time to upgrade the browser

, with the accelerating speed of the upgrading, Mozilla Firefox's version differentiation is more serious. It may be an obstacle to the future development of the platform.

Mozilla Firefox this year increased the speed to upgrade. It updated once every 6 weeks. The company will launch the new Firefox browser.

But the problem has cropped up. When it launch a new version, there are always some users would not upgrade. Older user groups gradually began to form a long tail. With the increasing trend of the version differentiation, it could become a major problem faced by Mozilla.

For example, Firefox 5 is the first browser after it accelerated the pace of the upgrade, now it should be the history. But it still occupies 4% of total users of Firefox. And if developing at the present rate, every year will appear 8the latest Firefox version. In the November of the next year, it will upgrade to Firefox 16. One can imagine how serious the version differentiation will be.

It is noteworthy that, Firefox 7 has entered the end of the upgrade cycle of 6 weeks, so the usera have a very ample time to upgrade, but still many people did not upgrade. The good news is the "legacy" version of Firefox and the earlier versions of Firefox are gradually reducing. This part of the user's share in early June was 43%. 5 months later, it is only 28%. At this rate, its share will be reduced to about 8% at the end of this year. The bad news is, still a large part of the users do not follow the upgrading pace of the Mozilla, updating to Firefox 5 and later versions.

This may be due to the automation of the upgrade process is not high enough. It may be because of prudent business users have been reluctant to upgrade. Of course, there may be a combination of these two factors, but we do not know the specific reasons. Firefox users may have canceled the automatic upgrade, but by default, this feature is enabled.

Fortunately, the current situation shows that, the proportion of users that are using the latest version of Firefox will not reduce in the short term, but it will also increase. The reason is there have been the users of 3.6 or older versions upgrading to the latest version, thereby increasing the user proportion of the latest version. But when such users gradually reduce, Mozilla will face problems.

by: Amanda Xia

POST COMMENT

The Importance Of 'playtime' In The Development Of A Child The Actual Benefits Of Instructor Professional Development Carrier Bags Perform A Necessary Purpose In Mirroring The Developments In Commodities Current Drug Development For Malaria The Full Round Development Of Child In School Using Mobile App Development Companies To Tap Into The Social Networking Opportunities How A Company's Reach Can Be Expanded With The Help Of Mobile App Development Companies Led Street Lights With Intelligent Function Are Imperative Development Trend Android App Development A Very Fast Growing Market Flex Developer Is The Master Key For A Sublime Flex Development Early Developments On Air Knife Opportunities For The Development Of Fine Chemical Industry Immense Developments Registered In Laser Eye Surgery In Birmingham