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Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share
sebFlyte writes "ZDNet is reporting that according to OneStat's latest figures, Firefox has passed the 10 percent market share mark. At 11.5 percent, it's still got a long way to go to reach Internet Explorer's 85.5 percent, but it's heading in the right direction. The report also mentions some odd geographical variation: Firefox's market share is almost three times higher in the US than UK, for example." From the article: "...other companies have noticed a decline in Firefox over recent months. Last month, Web applications provider NetApplications reported that the open source browser's share of the market dropped by 0.7 percentage points from August to September. Although this wasn't the first time that Firefox' share has dropped, RedMonk analyst James Governor said he believes the overall trend for Firefox is upwards."
Once websites start working better with the standard adhering Firefox browser, IE use will begin to drop off as it will annoy users by not showing pages correctly.
"11.5 percent, it's still got a long way to go to reach Internet Explorer's 85.5 percent"
It only needs to make it to 50% + 1%, at least that's what Quebec Seperatists would have us believe.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
The company said that Mozilla's browser now has a global market share of 11.5 percent, an increase of 2.8 percentage points since April.
If MS was promoting this it would be touted as a 24% increase in usage! And market share numbers would not even be mentioned. (It worked for NT...)
Showing my work for math nazies
(2.8/11.5*100=24%)
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If you're worried about malware, you should switch to a browser that has little chance of ever becoming the dominant browser. While you might think Opera is the obvious choice for this, I think there's a better one.
I am working to spread the firefox browser.
We all know that sex sells.
So try to look at this site http://www.thelovesearch.com/ using Microsoft
Internet Explore. It will try to convince your to use Firefox using
sex appeal.
If we could convince all porn sites to only support Firefox the battle
would be won in a few weeks.
Or am I dreaming now ??
If NPR has pledge drives, shouldn't the Open Source movement?
How, by cutting to a boring guy going on and on for 20 minutes about the great service Open Source is for every 5 minutes of web browsing?
I can just see it now: I'm watching a porno^H^H^H^H^Heducational video online, and suddenly it cuts out and is replaced by a voice saying "Open Source software provides you with access to a variety of interesting and informative content. But we couldn't do it without contributions from our viewers. We have a challenge grant going from Joe's Automotive right now, and they'll pledge $5,000 if we can get 15 pledges from you, our viewers, in the next hour. Please, click this link now."
I know I'd love it. Just like I love NPR's pledge drives, otherwise known as "listen to another station for a week" drives.
The order is alphabetical!
I am going to start an initiative to recommend that Firefox immediately change the name to Airfox making it the #1 browser on the net.
At 11.5 percent, it's still got a long way to go to reach Internet Explorer's 85.5 percent
Yeah, I can't wait until IE and Firefox are at 85.5%!
But then Microsoft would rename IE to AE - Aardvark Explorer.
Then we add a star or a underscore or something to the beginning of Airfox, therefore coming ahead of them again.
No one would ever bother using lynx if they were trying to use a non-dominant browser, the obvious choice is telnet on port 80, I render html in my head, yeah!
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