[Web] Safari numbers still dwarfed by Firefox downloads


	[Web] Safari numbers still dwarfed by Firefox downloads

Laxon

6-13-2009 9:27 PM

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browsers, apple, safari, 11 million, 150 million, firefox

Laxon says:

Browsers... the bane of Internet.

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