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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. Mozilla by crayz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this combine Mozilla Suite(Seamonkey) & Firefox data, or is it being separated?

  2. It's easy gain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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 :-)

  3. The real test... by RUFFyamahaRYDER · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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/

  4. Even better in Europe by sl956 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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:
    Finland 28.96%
    Czech Rep. 24.72%
    Germany 24.18%
    Hungary 20.37%
    Poland 20.13%
    Sweden 15.91%
    Switzerland 15.83%
    France 15.12%
    Austria 14.59%
    Estonia 14.24%
    Greece 14.00%
    Romania 12.73%
    Belgium 12.61%
    U.K. 12.29%
    Ireland 11.64%
    Portugal 11.39%
    Norway 11.20%
    Spain 10.82%
    Italy 10.38%
    Netherland 10.20%
    Monaco 09.08%
    Luxemburg 08.95%
    Danemark 08.48%
    Lituania 03.68%
    src: XiTi
  5. Opera stats still hidden by takeya · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.