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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. 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.