Meanings
plural Firefoxers
- One who uses the web browser Firefox.
Facebook Dislike is another option for FireFoxers.^([sic])
2010 July 16, Ann Smarty, “2 Ways to DISlike Things on Facebook (FireFox and Google Chrome)”, in Search Engine Journal, archived from the original on 19 Jul 20105 more examples
Follow that up with a polite email to the site’s webmaster, asking him to test that page in Firefox. You may be helping a lot of fellow Firefoxers.
2005, Scott Granneman, Don’t Click on the Blue e!: Switching to Firefox, O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 182Firefoxers get paid to convert IE users / Your friends may soon try to make a buck off of you.
2006 May 8, “Out of Site at AdAge.com”, in Advertising Age, volume 77, number 19, page 38Most updates this month are iterative rather than substantial, but Firefoxers finally get their new Google Toolbar.
2006 June, “Up to Speed: Upgrades That’ll Keep You Humming Along”, in Computer Power User, volume 6, number 06, page 73[…] Firefox is kind of the Web’s home-team favorite—[…]. Firefoxers even tried to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads (8.2 million) in a 24-hour period.
2008 July 14, Josh Quittner, “User’s Guide: The Better Browser. Firefox 3 is free—and well worth it”, in Time, page 62Tim Carmody (2011) of Wired.com wrote that the AptiQuant story spread on social media because the research supported what many of us already believed—that people with lower IQs resist change when it comes to their browsers (AptiQuant, 2011). Yes, story selection is often influenced by confirmation bias, but this hoax would have spread just as quickly if the data showed that Firefoxers were the dumbos.
2012, Lyn Millner, “A Little Bird Told Me”, in Journal of Mass Media Ethics, volume 27, number 1, →DOI, page 60
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