Internet Explorer 6 is dead. Long live IE.

Many of us thought IE 6 was already dead but it seems we were wrong. As its share of the web browser market fell to below 1%, Redmond finally gave it a one-two sucker punch. IE6 is now officially down for the count. Roger Capriotti , the Microsoft director in charge of IE marketing said : “IE6 has been the punch line of browser jokes for a while, and we’ve been as eager as anyone to see it go away.

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Firefox 6 is now 8% of Chitika's total North American traffic

Chitika Insights, the research division of Chitika ad network, is reporting that 8% of its traffic is now Firefox 6. This data is based on Chitika’s analysis of their USA and Canada traffic. They go on to say that Firefox 6 accounts for 45% of all detected Firefox traffic, which is an impressive uptake of the new version (considering it was released August 16). They mentioned that they expected adoption to slow a little. Click on any of the below images to see a full size graph.

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