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Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share

Posted by Zonk on from the foxy dept.

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."

2 of 405 comments (clear)

  1. I'm curious by ninja_assault_kitten · · Score: 0, Troll

    In light of the rash of security issues for both and aside from a hate of MS, why exactly are you so adement about migrating away from everything MS?

  2. By the time they hit 20% by Dan_Bercell · · Score: 0, Troll

    MS will release its latest version of IE and will start to regain some of its lost market share. IE 7 is very nice to use, and should (while running on the next version of Windows) reduce security issues, not to mention better support for standards.

    In all honesty I hope Firefox reachs 70% of the market share so they can get beat down with spyware/adaware...