Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Jan 2007 15:49 UTC, submitted by Andy Harmony
Although Microsoft recently touted the 100 millionth installation of Internet Explorer 7, Web measurement firms said that the new browser is simply being swapped out for older editions and hasn't had an impact on Firefox's continued climb. "[As of] January 8th, we had the 100 millionth IE7 installation," said Tony Chor, an IE group program manager, in an entry on the team's blog. "Even more important than installations is usage. According to WebSideStory (the company we use to measure browser usage), as of this week, over 25% of all visitors to sites in the U.S. were using IE7, making IE7 the second most used browser after IE6." While Microsoft had the WebSideStory numbers correct, it didn't tell the whole story, says Geoff Johnston, an analyst with the Web metrics company. "[The growth of IE 7] seems to be exclusively at the expense of IE 6," says Johnston. 
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so its definately not activex firefox uses when it downloads a new version without user even knowing and restarts itself?
Exactly. While an ActiveX control could be used to download updates, Firefox doesn't use such component for doing the job: it's directly coded in the interface (instead of being an embedded object). Furthermore, Firefox doesn't support ActiveX controls.
By the way, you can disable the automatic updates if you don't like them.
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so its definately not activex firefox uses when it downloads a new version without user even knowing and restarts itself? K-meleon does not use activex , Firefox uses activex period.