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Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share

Posted by kdawson on from the die-already dept.

Jared sends word of Ars Technica coverage of Net Applications' monthly browser share numbers. What's significant this time is that Firefox has finally passed IE6 in worldwide share. "Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft's browser. ... In October, all browsers except for IE and Opera showed positive growth. Between October and September, Internet Explorer dropped a significant 1.07 percentage points (from 65.71 percent to 64.64 percent) and Firefox moved up a sizeable 0.32 percentage points (from 23.75 percent to 24.07 percent). ... Although IE's decline seems to be unceasing, the real shame is that the old versions have more share than the newer ones (we can only hope that as Windows 7 gains popularity, this trend will reverse)." Ars presents a graph with their own site's browser share picture, and as you might expect it's very different from the general population's.

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  1. Hrmm by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    So when are they going to rip the skin off Firefox to show "Netscape Navigator - Double Ultimate Gold edition"?

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  2. Errr....people updating a free browser is news? by Tomsk70 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next we'll be seeing the revelation that Linux has overtaken Windows 98. Or something.

  3. In other news by imakemusic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tortoise walks past dead Hare.

    Film at 11.

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  4. Re:IE6 no more by selven · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.saveie6.com/

  5. Re:Antarctica! by nicodoggie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, obviously Tux uses Firefox doesn't he??

  6. Re:I 3 IE6. by maglor_83 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plus, running IE6 on my machine can provide for potentially interesting conversations if it ever comes up.

    And I thought I was dull.

  7. Re:Antarctica! by rvw · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Firefox has a 100.0% share in Antarctica (maybe just 1 user?) http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-an-monthly-200902-200902-bar

    Those damned penguins!

  8. Re:Antarctica! by antifoidulus · · Score: 1, Funny

    You would think IceWeasel would win there....

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  9. Re:Antarctica! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    No way. Real penguins use IceWeasel, of course!

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  10. Re:IE6 by koiransuklaa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently your visitors are not mathematically minded either: Sum of those figures is 103.7% and that's without a line for "unknown"...

  11. Re:StatCounter etc by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 3, Funny

    You, sir, will be hearing from my lawyer about this outrage!

    Sincerely,
    Ms. Mwambala Gertrude "Army Boots" Goldstein

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  12. Re:IE6 no more by blind+biker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I signed.

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