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Firefox Gains on IE Again in June
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."
Does this combine Mozilla Suite(Seamonkey) & Firefox data, or is it being separated?
When you in single percents it's easy to gain a couple more.
:-)
Linux is gaining on Windows for 14 years now and still is in single digits
The real test will be when the new IE 7 comes out... I predict (and hope) that FireFox will continue to gain even when the "new and improved" IE get's here. http://www.getfirefox.com/
www.w3schools.com changed the way it shows browser statistics?
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They are saying that FF use is decreasing.
Maybe because Bill is worried about this and...
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.
As everyday mom and pop users depend on Firefox instead of IE for browsing and more companies support Firefox, more exploits and holes will start to show up. I'm just glad that they update it frequently. Theres nothing like safe and secure browsing. It also means that more people will look to FOSS solutions. I have to admit, Firefox got me started.
Please remember that this 8.71 percent comes from a study of mostly north-american websites (NetApplication clients).
A similar study is done each month in Europe and the figures are quite different:
src: XiTi
They are already "working* on IE. Firefox is the reason your (presumably) beloved XP SP2 has a lot of the features it has. Firefox is the reason longhorn will have IE7 and not a patched IE6. Firefox is the reason IE7 will have "tabbed browsing" (haha... anyway...).
MS has put many programming hours into IE; the fact that you don't know about it is reason enough to believe MS to be inept.
No wonder MS isn't worried that much. it has stockholders like you who don't pay attention and don't know any better. It thrives on fools like you
I'm still waiting for the day when Opera releases a version of their browser that identifies by default as Opera instead of IE. It will be really interesting to see how much this impacts both IE's and Opera's market stats.
Internet Extreme is only for my 'saaviest' of clients, the clients who can name thier computer by its model year, and use MicrosoftXP. Still most of these clients come to see the light of Firefox with a little sit down walk through.
But some people insist on using IE (you know hurting themselves) and those are the ones I reserve IEx for. It gives them a little peace of mind, and a lot of safety. I can't drive out 30 miles every weekend to work on the same infestations that nuke an unprotected system on broadband week after week. Its sort of like that folders commercial, I'll tell them eventually.
yeah I might get sued, i never really thought about it much though considering the total number of IEx users is less than 5.
They don't have to understand it, it'll still spread like an urban myth. In other words, FUD works both ways.
You're right, of course, but it would be most interesting if a software package such as Firefox could follow the course of the iPod-- be a huge success not because it is a bigger or geekier music player, but because it is a better designed music player, and cool, hip, a status symbol, etc et al whatever. So will Firefox grow just because it is more pleasant? Will it grow becuase it becomes chic?
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
WHOA! Most faulty!
Since there are 60% Windows 2000 out there, and 11% Windows 98SE too!
Your Longhorn will at best put a 1% dent in the first year (or whats left of a year).
Not enough to stop the steady but absolutely sure eroding slide of Internet Explod^Hrer's market share.
The only way out the Microsoft conudrum is to FIX INTERNET EXPLORER right the first time, on all Windows platforms (oh, and Mac as well; Oh, didn't IE appear on Sun/OS?).
Any economist can tell you that when your infrastructure is eroding due to lack of maintenance, it will REACH the point of no-return due to inaction.
Larger the infrastructure or user-installed base, the larger the inertia of motion required to change the tide. Me think, this is what occurred to IE.