{"id":367,"date":"2009-02-06T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=367"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:08","slug":"some-firefox-users-still-on-fx2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/02\/06\/some-firefox-users-still-on-fx2\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Firefox Users Still on Fx2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While adoption of Firefox 3 continues to grow at a breakneck pace, we have continued to notice one other interesting trend \u2013 some Firefox users are still on Fx2.\u00a0 Fortunately, the vast majority of Firefox users are always on the latest version of Fx3, and we&#8217;ve seen some great strides in recent months thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/firefox-20020-users-offered-a-free-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major updates<\/a> helping most remaining Fx2 users upgrade to Fx3.<\/p>\n<p>To help the remaining Fx2 users complete their upgrade, we thought we&#8217;d conduct a little investigation.\u00a0 One relatively easy question to answer is\u2026 where in the world are these users?<\/p>\n<p>The chart below looks at usage of Firefox over a recent week-long period and shows the percentage of Firefox users in each continent using Fx2.\u00a0 The average is pretty close to 15%.\u00a0 The continents are sorted left-to-right according to the where most Firefox users (regardless of version) are located.\u00a0 For example, about 46% of the total Firefox user base is located in Europe, about 32% in North America, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/fx2_usage_continent.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-369 aligncenter\" title=\"fx2_usage_continent\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/fx2_usage_continent.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more interesting and relevant is an analysis by country.\u00a0 There are a handful of countries showing Fx2 usage levels above 20%:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/fx2_top_regions.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-368 aligncenter\" title=\"fx2_top_regions\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2009\/02\/fx2_top_regions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone has any thoughts as to how we can better help these particular users and make sure they get upgraded to the latest version of Fx3, please chime in with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While adoption of Firefox 3 continues to grow at a breakneck pace, we have continued to notice one other interesting trend \u2013 some Firefox users are still on Fx2.\u00a0 Fortunately, the vast majority of Firefox users are always on the &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/02\/06\/some-firefox-users-still-on-fx2\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}