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Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend

Posted by timothy on from the expected-but-still-nice dept.

carbolic writes "The Firefox browser is ramping up as fast as Internet Explorer is ramping down. According to these stats posted from the Engadget logfiles, IE has dropped to 57% of all browsers used to visit the site, while Firefox is up to an amazing 18%! The Engadget stats reflect an early-adopter consumer crowd and backing those up, this chart from w3schools shows the same trend. I guess CERT's recommendation and a mature product are finally paying off for the Mozilla project. Less than 2 years ago, IE had a 95% lock on the market. Anyone else see a trend here?"

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  1. Workaround by Compact+Dick · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most 0.9+ plugins should work with 1.0PR. Go to about:config, locate extensions.disabledObsolete and change its value to false . Worked for me, YMMV. Good luck.

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  2. None techie site - more representative by barcodez · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here are some stats from a none techie site which gets a reasonable amount of traffic:
    MSIE 89.7%
    FireFox 3.1%
    Mozilla 2.2%
    Netscape 2.2%
    Opera 0.9%
    Safari 0.9%
    Unknown 0.4%
    Firebird 0%
    Konqueror 0%
    Others 0.1%
    Also more interestingly Firefox usage has for the last 4-5 months doubled month on month.
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  3. Re:Hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I also run one site, but mine isn't geared towards techheads. (Blood conservation for hospital staff.) Here's this months stats so far:

    MSIE 6.0: 86%
    MSIE 5.5: 3%
    MSIE 5.23: 1.2%
    MSIE 5.01: 0.9%
    MSIE 5.0: 1.8%
    Netscape 7.2: 0.7%
    Netscape 7.1: 0.7%
    Mozilla: 2.5%
    Opera: 2%
    Unknown: 0.3%
    Konqueror: 0.1%
    (Missing: 0.8%)

    I'm waiting for Mozilla to grow. Then again, my site still uses frames, so why am I complaining?

    Sum of IE Dropped ~2% since previous months where it hovered around 94.7%+-0.3. Mozilla numbers remain unchanged from previous months; Opera took the space it seems. Oh well.

  4. Re:Hmmmm by fymidos · · Score: 5, Informative

    A trend is not about absolute numbers.
    Another site may have 90% Explorer and 4% firefox.
    If last year the figures were 92% vs 2%, then the trend is the same as w3schools (where firefox usage jumped from 8% -> 18 %)

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  5. Re:Hmmmm by bunratty · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about Wikipedia: 80% IE, 20% Mozilla & company.

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  6. Re:As much as I'd like this to be true... by bunratty · · Score: 5, Informative
    You're right. You need to look at many sites before you can say there's an overall trend. Let's see what Chuck Upsdell has to say about the trends he sees:

    IE: 84% and falling
    Mozilla: 7% and rising
    Safari: 1-2% and rising
    Opera: 1-2% and holding steady
    Netscape 4: below 1% and falling

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  7. IE vs Firefox by Rydian · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am a SysAdmin for a company that provides listings for real estate web sites. Sadly we aren't fully w3c compliant, but we make sure all of our code renders properly in both Mozilla/FireFox and Internet Explorer.

    Last week We had 12,156,966 hits to our sites, which is only the search related pages, not photos etc.. 11,689,635 (96.15%) were from Internet Explorer.

    I'd wager to say we would see a much more diverse range of users than a site specifically designed for web designers. I hate to say it, but IE is still as much of a force in the market as it ever was.

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