Firefox Passes IE6 In Browser Share

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.

Comments

Re:StatCounter etc

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

So, if you're adult, male, white, middle-class, christian, heterosexual, well-educated, you're fair game.

Fair game for what? Is there some kind of slur or bigotry used against this group?

Re:Hoping for Windows 7's success...

[that this is not und]

And hell, even Microsoft's site doesn't render properly in IE6 any more.

That should be no surprise. Microsoft has ended sales of any software product that would come bundled with IE6. Speaking as a Windows 2000 user (not gonna upgrade to a 'phone home' Microsoft OS ever) I know that Microsoft would be delighted if it became impossible to use W2K to connect to the Internet. Thankfully, Seamonkey and Firefox and other options are available to me.

So to all the people pissing and ranting about IE6: Thanks for doing Microsoft's work for them

Re:Bring back IE6

[mcgrew]

COBOL forever!