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Firefox Gains on IE Again in June

Posted by Zonk on from the walk-the-dinosaur dept.

kurtz_tan writes "Infoworld reported that Firefox increased its market share to 8.71 percent, up from 8 percent in May, while IE's share shrank to 86.56 percent from 87.23 percent. This is according to NetApplications.com. Since the beginning of the year, Firefox has increased its market share every month between 0.5 percent and 1 percent, mostly at the expense of IE. This means Firefox would cross the 10% market share by October."

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  1. Safari! Woo hoo! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're number three! :-)

    1. Re:Safari! Woo hoo! by typical · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't know what's funniest -- your post, the fact that you got +5 Funny, or that your username is "Quiet_Desperation"...

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  2. firecow by fred+fleenblat · · Score: 5, Funny

    firefox/firefly I'm getting really confused...

    1. Re:firecow by Xugumad · · Score: 3, Funny

      Then you'll hate Firesomething. It randomly re-brands your (Firefox) browser :)

    2. Re:firecow by RichDice · · Score: 3, Funny
      I have a different association when I hear 'firecow'.

      This is a story that my wife told me that I think is fairly funny. My wife's parents are from Hong Kong and she mostly speaks Cantonese Chinese with them when she's at home, though my wife was born and raised in Toronto and English is her first language.

      One day, one of my wife's parents (I forget which) while speaking Cantonese asked her to go upstairs to get the firecow for the cell phone. My wife was completely baffled by this. So she talked it through with them and it turns out that the literal translation for "battery recharger" from Cantonese into English is -- firecow.

      You can't make this stuff up.

      Cheers,
      Richard

  3. You can thank me for that... by IcarusMoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because I rebrand and reskin Firefox then install it on my clients' computers as "Internet Extreme". My saavier clients like how IEx prevents popups and spyware, and also like that it is from Microsoft so they know they can trust it.
    Ahhh saavy clients...

    1. Re:You can thank me for that... by phildo420 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Stop passing FireFox out. Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox, but when it hits a large enough audience - then bad mean people will care enough to look for its vulnerabilities and take advantage of them too, and I'll have to find a new browser to visit nasty sites with. Besides, I make good money thanks to IE and the crap it installs thank you.

    2. Re:You can thank me for that... by Thomas+Shaddack · · Score: 2, Funny
      err...shouldn't that be Firefolgers?


      Is Java included in the package?

  4. Re:Mozilla by Ucklak · · Score: 2, Funny

    SeaMonkey?

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  5. Re:News? by tomjen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah just when it its more than 51 percent, I have to see balmers reaction to that one.

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  6. Word? by tepples · · Score: 2, Funny

    But still, word.

    Don't you mean "But still, OO.o writer"?

    1. Re:Word? by tcopeland · · Score: 1, Funny

      > Don't you mean "But still, OO.o writer"?

      Oh, I was using "word" as an abbreviation for "Abiword", of course! And when I say "I", I mean "GNU/I".

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  7. In other news by ZakuSage · · Score: 3, Funny

    A recent study confirms 86.56 percent of computer users have massive amounts of malware on their computer.

  8. Re:Browser Threshold by IcarusMoth · · Score: 2, Funny

    No one understands that 'the big e' is not the internet thats why you have to delete the IE icons and force them to use Firefox for a few minutes, show them tabbed browsing and ad blocking, get them addicted to extensions (like foxytunes). It honestly doesnt take too long, unless they are "teh tech saavy" and 'know' how good MicrosoftXP is and name thier computer by its 'model year'. then you have to resort to "Extreme Measures".

    If all else fails and they complain too much put the IE icons back, and allow the system to grind to a halt, they'll figure it out real quick.

  9. Re:did anyone notice the Microsoft logo?? by speights_pride! · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, as I'm using Adblock ;-)

  10. 100% by only 2013! (Gotta love math). Death to IE! by wernst · · Score: 5, Funny
    Firefox has increased its market share every month between 0.5 percent and 1 percent, mostly at the expense of IE. This means Firefox would cross the 10% market share by October.

    Of course, this means that (assuming 1% growth per month for easy math):

    14% by Jan 2006
    26% by Jan 2007
    38% by Jan 2008
    50% by Jan 2009
    62% by Jan 2010
    74% by Jan 2011
    86% by Jan 2012
    98% by Jan 2013
    100% by Mar 2013

    Sounds about right: no more IE in only 8 short years. The math couldn't possibly be wrong...

  11. Re:News? by hchaos · · Score: 4, Funny
    Is it really news though? I like to see these stats as much as the next guy, but i mean, give me a shout when it hits 25%.
    I think that the news here is that they anticipate that Firefox's market share will soon become newsworthy.
  12. My solution by CdBee · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This cleanup is free. The next one, if the need for it is caused by bad practice, won't be"

    - follow this up with standard teach-in about browser security, risks posed by using the mainstream browser that is widely targeted, introduction of a different browser that doesn't have these particular problems

    - provide printed sheet about system security for them to read if the teach-in wasn't clear enough

    - install Firefox and AdBlock with a default set of REGEX filters to kill the worst excesses, and suggest they play with NoScript for ultimate safety, now that the browser-crashing bug that it sometimes triggers has been fixed.
    Bingo

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  13. Hey, you're missing some numbers there. by Stankatz · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...IE's share shrank to 86.56 percent from 87.23 percent.
    I think that's supposed to be 86.563348237 percent from 87.23172395 percent. Also, someone should invent a symbol that stands for "percent" so we wouldn't have to spell it out every time.