Well, it did not take long. While it took nearly three years between the releases of Firefox 3 and Firefox 4, it took just three months until they released Firefox 5. As a Chrome user, I am heavily excited about the potential of Firefox’s new, rapid release business model.
After the interesting findings from looking at Mac operating system usage by city, Insights decided to take another look at city level data, this time for how rapidly different cities adopt the new technologies. To perform this, Insights took a lot at the traffic from the top 100 American cities. It turns out that the top cities followed a similar trend to Mac usage, which is a heavy presence of California:
Once again, California appears frequently, with Long Beach well ahead of the pack; 12.5% of impressions originating from Long Beach in our sample came from Firefox 5 browsers. California also makes up 4 of the top 10 major cities on our list. However, they also make up three of our bottom 10:
Interestingly Anaheim, just 16 miles east of Long Beach, appears on the bottom of this list with just 4.8% of impressions coming from Firefox 5. Bakersfield rounds up the rear at just 3.3%.
While the top 10 is littered with heavy tech sector influence, like San Jose, San Francisco, and Austin, TX, it seems that region alone is not the only influence on browser adoption rate. Instead, different cities seem to have different tastes.
