Mozilla Gains on Internet Explorer

Alizarin Erythrosin writes "PCWorld is reporting that Internet Explorer's share of the browser market has dropped 1%, the 'first noticeable decline since WebSideStory began tracking the browser market in late 1999.' With all the exploits and security holes in IE recently, it's no wonder! Google News has related stories, including many on the recently disclosed (and patched!) bug in Mozilla on Win2k/XP machines (documented on Slashdot on Thursday)"

Comments

Change IS Change

[eSims]

I am not a statistician and therefore am not going to discuss the merits of 1%, but Change IS Change.

While Mom and Pop (tm) may still use whatever is default for some time to come, just keep passing out CDs and downloading it for friends... it IS catching on.

I just burned a CD for a friend stuck on dialup. She is a school teacher in NYC and could care less about mozilla/ie/netscape/blah, BUT she has adware/spyware clogging her computer. So I burn a CD with adaware, spybot, AND Firefox along with a text file telling her how and what to do.

Voila... another Mozilla user!

A change is afoot

[foobybletch]

I Think I first really noticed that Mozilla and Firebird were making an impact, when finally my bank actually supported a browser other than Internet Exploder for their online service, and specifically mentioned support for Mozilla!

I guess that if (some) online service providers can be bothered to support a significant minority of users (e.g. Mac users, no flames here!), then support for another browser should be possible, and especially in their enlightened self interest

-Fooby

Re:Whooptyshit, one percent.

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

It could simply be a single large-scale corporate migration to Mozilla...

Now that would be significant...

Citibank recommends non-IE browsers.

[MongooseCN]

When I log into citibankcards.com (using mozilla of course) there is a message in bright red that comes up warning users that they should not use IE. It seems to come up no matter what browser I use.

Re:Is your mother really THAT stupid? Probibly not

[GreatDrok]

I got my mother to switch to Mozilla about 6 months back and she has been thrilled with it. She started using it for the spam filtering and stayed for the browser itself. The other day I phoned her to tell her to upgrade mozilla because of the shell:// problem and she had already done it! I think she may actually be getting it.