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Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month

Posted by timothy on from the one-in-five dept.

CWmike writes "Mozilla's Firefox browser is on pace to hit the 20% market-share mark next month. Net Applications marketing VP Vince Vizzaccaro didn't pin all of Firefox's increase on a change last month to its update dialog; he did note the new approach. 'Mozilla has implemented a change in Firefox 3.0 [Release Candidate 1] where the installation now has a checkbox that defaults to making Firefox your default browser,' he explained. He refused to ding Mozilla for the practice. 'The option is clearly displayed and labeled, unlike Safari, which misleadingly labeled the Safari install as an "update" [but has] since correctly changed to an 'install.' However, this practice is a break from the traditional practice browsers employed of defaulting this option to off.'"

6 of 295 comments (clear)

  1. What's the RIGHT number? by _bug_ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Firefox @ 16%
    Firefox @ 18%
    Firefox @ 40%

    So which one is right?

  2. Re:Well, isn't that ironic? by Jellybob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It takes a fraction of the time needed to make a site that was built in Firefox to work in IE compared to making a site built in IE work with any real web browser.

    In most cases I can build the site using Firefox, knowing that'll it'll be 99% the same in Safari, Opera, and whatever other browsers you can think of. Then I just need an IE specific stylesheet (that'll be full of nasty hacks) to make everything look right in IE as well.

    And that's not taking into account the extensions that make life so much more pleasant. Firebug alone must have saved me several days of tracing bugs this year.

  3. OT Mod comment by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That comment isn't informative, its inquisitive, which should be a mod option.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  4. Re:Default Browser by DCstewieG · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One would think that WL Messenger, being written by Microsoft, would be more aware of system settings and their intended effects.. A cynic might imagine they understand this quite well.
    1. Casual Firefox user clicks link from friend
    2. IE opens asking if it should be set as the default
    3. An IE user is reborn
    I suppose this list replaces the ??? between "ignore system setting" and "Profit!"
  5. Slashdot browser usage distribution?? by BlackCreek · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Yo,Taco!

    Where, and when are we getting to see the browser usage distribution of Slashdot?

    I bet you could have one of those stories with more than 1000 posts by publishing it in the "Taco Blog", and linking to it.

    It would probably be very interesting to see how (if?) the distribution varies depending on section (games, linux, mac etc).

  6. Already there. by iplayfast · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I run a fairly busy site that has the following stats:
    1. Internet Explorer 97,589 75.07%
    2. Firefox 26,383 20.30%
    3. Safari 4,844 3.73%
    4. Opera 500 0.38%
    5. Netscape 329 0.25%
    6. Mozilla 270 0.21%
    7. Konqueror 37 0.03%
    8. Camino 21 0.02%
    9. Mozilla Compatible Agent 6 > 0.00%
    10.
    Playstation 3 5 > 0.00%

    What is interesting to note is that this site is for stock investors so think middle aged, none-technical crowd.
    (Com-on Konqueror!)