{"id":36,"date":"2008-07-02T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-07-02T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T18:23:45","slug":"firefox-users-most-likely-to-run-latest-version-of-the-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2008\/07\/02\/firefox-users-most-likely-to-run-latest-version-of-the-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox users most likely to run latest version of the browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techzoom.net\/publications\/insecurity-iceberg\/index.en\">recent report<\/a> identified  Firefox users as most likely to be running the latest version of the browser at any point in time.\u00a0 Brian Krebs at the Washington Post comments on it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/securityfix\/2008\/07\/40_percent_of_web_users_surf_w_1.html?nav=rss_blo\">Forty Percent of Web Users Surf With Unsafe Browsers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is great news for Mozilla, since it demonstrates that the work that has gone into the auto update mechanism and the restore session feature has really paid off.\u00a0 In order to reduce the window of risk for users and minimize the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2007\/06\/18\/time-to-deploy-improvement-of-25-percent\/\">time to deploy<\/a>, we have put a lot of effort into making sure that it is as easy to install security updates as possible.\u00a0 This is not the first time <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2008\/01\/17\/read-past-the-headlines-firefox-is-fixed-faster\/\">we have heard this<\/a>, but it is great to get more numbers behind what we already know:\u00a0 Firefox is safer because Mozilla continually works on security improvements, ships updates quickly, and makes it easier to stay up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>You will be hearing more about our effort to collect meaningful security metrics like these soon.<\/p>\n<p>Asa has a few words to say about this on <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/asa\/archives\/2008\/07\/staying_up_to_d.html\">his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report identified Firefox users as most likely to be running the latest version of the browser at any point in time.\u00a0 Brian Krebs at the Washington Post comments &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2008\/07\/02\/firefox-users-most-likely-to-run-latest-version-of-the-browser\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,71,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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