Posted on 05/29/2007 8:45:48 AM PDT by N3WBI3
Firefox Takes 25% of Browser Market
May 29, 2007: According to the latest statistics from w3counter.com, Firefox’s market share is going gangbusters with the open source browser capturing over 25 percent of the browser market.
Based 31,612,302 unique visits to 4,362 websites, the May 20 report from W3Counter will no doubt be a feather in the Mozilla Foundation’s cap as its browser goes from strength to strength.
While it has a long way to go to capture a similar user base as Microsoft’s internet Explorer, the figures show both significant gains for Firefox, and significant losses for IE.
W3Counter found that IE6 was used by 49.5 percent of visitors, while IE7 was favoured by 16.8 percent. This gives Microsoft a 56.3 percent share of the overall market, a significant drop if compared to the 85 percent penetration it enjoyed according to a Web Analytics study in November 2005.
Related Articles: More SMBs Installing Firefox According to a recent survey of American SMBs, Firefox is gaining significant ground on Microsoft’s market-dominating Internet Explorer. FireFox 2.0 Released Before Microsoft Counts Chickens Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 release, the Mozilla Foundation has updated its open source browser FireFox to version 2.0, offering a swag of new features such as spell checking, identity protection and improved web feed support.
While it has experienced its fare share of problems this year, support for Firefox is snowballing. And with a new version expected soon, the future is indeed looking bright for the open source browser.
‘Fox Rox.
I refuse to use IE except when I absolutely have to..my firefox user agent add-on emulates IE and gets me into sites that require it..
I love Firefox. I just wish they’d fix the damn memory leaks. Even with no extensions extended browsing sessions will make the sucker a memory hog.
Whoo dey? I have that problem too? LOL....
Is that an extension? If so, what is the name of it? I use IE View 1.3.2 to get pages to load in IE with a right click.
It’s called “User Agent Switcher” Search for it on the extensions site. It’ll be the first one to pop up.
What's an SMB?
I refuse to look it up!
I belong to AAAAA.
Just saying.
Small/Medium Business
Thank you.
American Association Against All Acronyms...
Like the one in your tagline? LOL!
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