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Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide
gQuigs notes a graph up at StatCounter Global Statistics, which shows that in the last few days Firefox 3.5 became the most used browser version worldwide, edging ahead of IE7. IE8 is rising fast (along with Windows 7), but over the last few months the slope of Firefox's worldwide curve has been steeper. (In the US, IE8 has always been ahead of Firefox 3.5; in Europe Firefox has led since late summer.) The submitter suggests using the time when Firefox rules the roost, globally speaking, to put the final nail in the coffin of IE6, which still has a 14% global share (5%-7% in the US and EU; China and Korea are holding up IE6's numbers).
Lalalalala, I can't here you. Firefox has taken major marketshare. Lalalalala
IE still makes up 86% of the traffic to sites I control. Firefox just now hit the 10% mark, Safari ranks 3rd at 2.6%. This time last year IE was 89%. Chrome barely makes our charts at 0.5%. Dominant browser? Hardly. I still have 20% of my users running W2k Pro with IE6. I've had to fudge user agents on our proxy because of the warnings so many sites give them. They can't control what machines we give them, and we can't upgrade their hardware because of goverment mandated tax and budget cuts (we are a govermnent office). Running Firefox is impossible due to lack of enterprise support. Call me a m$ fanboi, I still see no benefits of running an alternative browser. Adblock you say? The proxy does the same thing only better.