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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. Here's a week of RubyForge HTTP log stats... by tcopeland · · Score: 3, Informative
    ...mostly Mozilla:
    select count(*), browser from activity_log group by browser;
    count | browser
    --------+---------
    278 | OPERA
    239072 | OTHER
    499518 | MOZILLA
    102863 | IE
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  2. Re:It's easy gain by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 1, Informative

    We're not talking about percent growth. We're talking about gaining a share of the market. If they said their user base grew 1%, that wouldn't be anything to brag about, but gaining 0.5-1% of the entire market per month is quite nice. If the market is growing at the time they are gobbling up market share, that means their previous 8% share had devalued to smaller percentage and that the additional market share they actually gained would be more than 0.71% of the new market size.

  3. Re:You can thank me for that... by IcarusMoth · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used Firesomething and deleted all of the extrainious stuff that allowed for random names, photoshopped IE's icon to add orange (fade to gold) flames to the bottom half, left the rest as blue.
    I used the Office 2003 themes from this guy to create the look and feel.

    tidied the whole package up into a selfextracting zip archive and with a nifty install script to handle all this crap and bingo bango, Internet Extreme and the clients do love it, If I can find a place to host the package, I will.

  4. Notice this however by rbarreira · · Score: 3, Informative

    One thing to note - in the end it says this:

    Attention, il est important de noter que cette étude a été effectuée sur un week-end, où l'utilisation de Firefox est toujours plus importante qu'en semaine. La différence demeure importante entre les usages domicile et les usages au bureau (2 à 3 points en moyenne).

    Which roughly means, if my french skills haven't yet totally dissapeared, that the study was made in the weekened, which slighly slants the study because Firefox is more used at people's homes than at work. But the last sentence says the difference between Firefox @ home and @ work is only of 2 or 3%, on average.

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  5. enjoy it while it lasts ... a tear wells up by icepick72 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft has fairly recently released a toolbar for IE that includes tabbed browsing and Desktop search. I've been a dedicated Firefox user for the last few years, but I can tell that the stats are going to shift back towards IE really fast when IE 7 is released with many commonly-used Firefox/Opera/etc features integrated, especially if MS releases it for XP too.

    1. Re:enjoy it while it lasts ... a tear wells up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Have you tried the MSN toolbar? It is one of the most horrid pieces of software MS has released in quite a while. It is slow, visually crap and sucks to try and configure so it behaves like you want it to. Sure, you get tabs but it is really horrific to use and look at. The web page flashes annoyingly when you open a new tab. The tabs don't look nice / well integrated at all and it is a *real* pain to configure. This is a bolt on hack job and it feels as such.

      No need to worry about non-XP IE6 users getting tabs and pop up blocking which are visually and functionally acceptable. MS has already said that they're abandoning Windows 2000 users.

  6. Re:Mozilla by line.at.infinity · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are counting the two separately:

    Firefox Market Share Falters

  7. Re:Opera stats still hidden by jmlsteele · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not entirely. Some scripts will actually detect Opera as IE when spoofing, but any decent stats program will detect it properly as Opera.

    Here are the HTTP_USER_AGENT lines for Opera for the various Identity methods.

    Opera: Opera/8.01 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
    Mozilla: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Opera 8.01
    IE: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.01

    As you can clearly see "Opera" is mentioned in all 3, including the version number.