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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! :-)

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

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

  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...

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

    No, as I'm using Adblock ;-)

  5. 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...

  6. 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.
  7. 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

    --
    I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
  8. 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.