See Firefoxer on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2005, Scott Granneman, Don’t Click on the Blue e!: Switching to Firefox, O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 182:",
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"ref": "2006 May 8, “Out of Site at AdAge.com”, in Advertising Age, volume 77, number 19, page 38:",
"text": "Firefoxers get paid to convert IE users / Your friends may soon try to make a buck off of you.",
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"ref": "2006 June, “Up to Speed: Upgrades That’ll Keep You Humming Along”, in Computer Power User, volume 6, number 06, page 73:",
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"ref": "2008 July 14, Josh Quittner, “User’s Guide: The Better Browser. Firefox 3 is free—and well worth it”, in Time, page 62:",
"text": "[…] 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.",
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"ref": "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 2010-07-19:",
"text": "Facebook Dislike is another option for FireFoxers.^([sic])",
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"ref": "2012, Lyn Millner, “A Little Bird Told Me”, in Journal of Mass Media Ethics, volume 27, number 1, →DOI, page 60:",
"text": "Tim 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.",
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"ref": "2012 March 14, Serdar Yegulalp, “4 Firefox rebuilds feed the need for speed”, in InfoWorld, archived from the original on 2023-05-11:",
"text": "In the long run, I suspect custom Firefox builds created solely for the sake of processor optimization will disappear, especially when Firefox rolls out its own native 64-bit build. (In fact, 64-bit Firefox is already available in the most recent nightly build of version 11.) But for now, there's still a culture of roll-your-own Firefoxers keeping the faith.",
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"ref": "2012 August 29, Lucian Parfeni, “Despite Being the Default, IE Users Still Prefer Google to Bing”, in Softpedia, archived from the original on 2012-09-01:",
"text": "Bing is used by 5.3 percent of Firefoxers.",
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"ref": "2012 September 4, Josh Constine, “Install Or Be Annoyed: Google Home Page Nags Firefoxers, Internet Explorers To Switch To Chrome”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2012-09-05:",
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"ref": "2013 October 25, Evan Dashevsky, “Hands-on: Mozilla’s Lightbeam is info porn for privacy geeks”, in PCWorld, archived from the original on 2022-01-16:",
"text": "Firefoxers can find the Lightbeam add-on here.",
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"ref": "2014 August 19, Robert Sorokanich, “Rabbit Lets You Watch Videos With Friends, No Matter Where They Are”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2014-08-20:",
"text": "All you do is hop on to Rabbit's website using Chrome or Opera (sorry, Firefoxers and Safariers), allow access to your camera and microphone, and use the browser-within-a-browser inside the Rabbit window to go wherever you want.",
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"ref": "2018 September 6, Mark Wilson, “I tried the Titan Key, the security fob used by 85,000 Google workers”, in Fast Company, archived from the original on 2018-09-06:",
"text": "I was able to set up both the USB and Bluetooth keys in all of a minute through Chrome (Google tells me support for third-party browsers is still in development, all you Firefoxers).",
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"ref": "2019 March 26, David Canellis, “This app exposes which cryptocurrency a user is most likely to shill on Twitter”, in TNW, archived from the original on 2021-07-26:",
"text": "For those still keen to try it, Chrome users can grab the extension here. Firefoxers can download it here.",
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"ref": "2021 November 16, Alan Martin, “Microsoft is making it even harder to avoid the Edge browser in Windows 11”, in Tom’s Guide, archived from the original on 2021-11-16:",
"text": "While the half-million EdgeDeflector users could be comfortably ignored, hundreds of millions of Firefoxers probably could not be, he speculates.",
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},
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"ref": "2014 August 19, Robert Sorokanich, “Rabbit Lets You Watch Videos With Friends, No Matter Where They Are”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2014-08-20:",
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},
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"ref": "2018 September 6, Mark Wilson, “I tried the Titan Key, the security fob used by 85,000 Google workers”, in Fast Company, archived from the original on 2018-09-06:",
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