Firefox Market Share Breaks 20%
Posted 12/01/08 at 03:08:21 PM | by Andy Salisbury
What was once a cult classic has finally hit the big-time – Mozilla’s Firefox web browser (the one that you’re possibly using right now!) has finally broken 20% market share amongst all web browsers. This move dropped Microsoft’s Internet Explorer down to roughly 70%.
Thanks to some data published by Net Applications, we’ve got some exact numbers regarding this matter. Official information for the month of November list Firefox with 20.78% of the market share, up from 19.97% in October. Internet Explorer is now holding only 69.77% of the share, with Apple’s Safari holding a respectable 6.57% and third place. Google’s fancy new flagship browser has been moving fast, hurdling over Opera’s 0.71%, with their own share of 0.83%.
If you’re one of the many that have downloaded, and use Firefox on a regular basis, good for you! I’m sure they’re grateful for the help. If you haven’t given it a whirl yet, there’s never been a better time. It’s a mighty solid platform that’s worthy of your download.
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So, any guesses as to the
Submitted by jcollins on Tue, 2008-12-02 11:21
So, any guesses as to the threshold for when the malware creators start specifically targetting Firefox vulnerabilities? IE's been the main target due to marketshare (well, as well as the easy security holes). Now that Firefox is coming up in the world, that's more bang for the buck for the malware creators...
ITT: Absolute stupidity
Submitted by dankers on Mon, 2008-12-01 23:24
ITT: Absolute stupidity
Submitted by PCIV on Mon, 2008-12-01 14:18
I wish I used Firefox, but I'm using Flock, a alternative Firefox that has a way better RSS reader that no extension can match.
Submitted by habuza on Mon, 2008-12-01 14:17
and I didn't like it at all. I am a skilled computer user, write code( bug free ), setup computer hardware, networks, all that jazz. I didn't like it because I had to go get a plug-in for everything I wanted to view when using IE I can just view a page and not have to mess with it. Just fire up the web-browser and off I go. Does firefox do this? Not that I've seen. Great job Firefux. I don't like to have to mess with getting my home system to work with a browser. I spend all day at work fixing peoples' computer issues. I don't want to do this at home.
You lost all credibility with...
Submitted by Tekzel on Tue, 2008-12-02 07:50
"I am a skilled computer user, write code( bug free )"
No one writes bug free code. Well, unless you sit around all day writing "Hello World" apps. Or you write it so meticulously and slowly that your productivity approaches zero.
Anyway, the rest of your post is a bunch of nonsense as well. A plain jane installation with only a few minimal extensions, like Flash, can browse the vast majority of sites with no issues. Most of the compatibility issues I run into are sites that either check for IE for no good reason, or use an ActiveX control. I have about 30 or so extensions loaded in Firefox on every machine I have, but they are all "frills".
Final note, I hate all this talk about "marketshare". IE only has such a large install base because Microsoft bundled it. If we were talking about the percentages of people who actively chose to install Firefox, my money is on it having the largest install base by far. It is a superior browser in every single way it can be superior. In my "oh so humble" opinion.
Submitted by gamesfrager on Mon, 2008-12-01 17:20
"write code( bug free )" .. Oh god, the hours we spent HACKING our CSS or JavaScript JUST so stpid IE can view the code correctly !
I'm a web developer and thank god I do not have to deal with the front end of sites (css) that much, I moslty do PHP and mySQL, but it is my poor friends that have to deal with it.
Plug-ins, oh man, the webdeveloper toolbar is a god sent ! I couldn't find anything similar to it on IE. and there are tons and tons of useful plug-ins for mighty FireFox.
" I had to go get a plug-in
Submitted by horzo on Mon, 2008-12-01 16:56
" I had to go get a plug-in for everything I wanted to view..."
Huh? Examples, please.
Submitted by hogkill on Thu, 2008-12-04 14:23
i think he means how u have to install flashplayer, and some other videoplayer stuff like that again to use it on firefox. theres only about 3 or so apps u really need to install.
but then theres all those extra apps from the mozilla site, being able to rip youtube videos with 1 click of a button is awesome, as is blocking annoying flash adds, and having an integrated irc browser is awesome.
and as far as i know they pretty much invented the browser tab system. once u go firefox u never go back.
although i havent updated to firefox 3 yet. still on 2 cuz i wasnt sure if it would bring over all the stuff i installed or not. probably will but i dont see any major reason to switch atm.
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