Firefox achieves 10 percent market share

Mozilla's Firefox has managed to grab over 10 percent of the Web browser marker with its highest percentage to date, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com on Tuesday.

The company said that Mozilla's browser now has a global market share of 11.5 percent, an increase of 2.8 percentage points since April. Some of this growth is at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has declined by 1.2 percentage points since April, to a market share of 85.5 percent.

The popularity of Firefox varies across the world, with a market share of 14.1 percent in the US, but only 4.9 percent in the UK, according to OneStat. Its figures are based on a sample of two million Web users worldwide.

[? /*CMS poll(20003908) */ ?]But other companies have noticed a decline in Firefox over recent months. Last month, Web applications provider NetApplications reported that the open source browser's share of the market dropped by 0.7 percentage points from August to September.

Although this wasn't the first time that Firefox' share has dropped, RedMonk analyst James Governor said he believes the overall trend for Firefox is upwards.

"The notion that this is the end of the road for Firefox is completely absurd. Any turbulence in the growth path is a temporary thing," said Governor.

Talkback

Glad to see Firefox becoming more popular. I installed it on all the systems in the Internet cafe I work at overa year ago and it cut down the number of problems dramatically. There are very few sites which cause problems with it and they are mostly from that Microsoft company which you would expect

via Facebook 3 November, 2005 12:27

PLEASE STOP SOURCING *NetApplications* in articles!!!!!!!

They are KNOWN DISTRIBUTERS of SPYWARE!!!!!!

Thus, the results they collect, are HUGELY BIASED, based on the fact that ONLY MS Internet Explorer, can be HIJACKED by their crapware!!!!!!

Just stop using them as a source of reference, please!!!!!

PS In case you didn't already know, they distribute the ALEXA spyware toolbar, among other pieces of crapware.

via Facebook 3 November, 2005 13:35

finally some good news! ;) no really, this IS good news, because firefox deserves this. its way better then IE and it is gaining market share not due to its manufacturers monopol exploits, but du to its advantages.

via Facebook 3 November, 2005 16:23

What's not to like about Firefox?

True support for the web standards. Innovative. Support for a wide variety of platforms.

Finally we have a browser to rally behind in the knowledge that it's not just being used to extract more cash or to prop up a monopoly.

via Facebook 4 November, 2005 04:52

FireFox. Smaller in download size then some required Microsoft security patches and a better answer to security related issues then relevant Microsoft's security patches provide. Plus it's more user friendly. And, for businesses, helps to cut down support calls from teleworkers (maybe not at first but once the short learning curve is put behind you it just keeps on working).

The next must-have home-user download: OpenOffice 2.0. Does what is needed, is more then good enough, is legal and doesn't require buying a license. Also a good alternative for businesses that want to save on the teleworkers (licensing) costs. Even a huge budget saver if it turns out that Microsoft Office 12 won't be needed after all company wide.

via Facebook 4 November, 2005 22:59

To bad OneStat the people that released this states count all Mozilla browsers as firefox. I wonder how much the percentage really is.

via Facebook 6 November, 2005 02:52

Even though Fx users only make up %10, they seem to be more internet-savvy and spend more overall hours browsing the web (ie: browse more websites per capita than IE users) ...

Case in point, my website gets around 50% Fx users, often more than the IE users. Sure, if you look at "mainstream" sites like Google you will probably find the statistics to be more heavily in favor of IE. But, ignoring individual users and simply counting pageloads, I bet you would find that Firefox accounts for ~50% of the traffic. (I would be interested in seeing these statistics)

BoingBoing also recently reported that their website gets a much larger percentage of Fx users than would be expected, something like 30% maybe? I don't remember exactly.

I guess my point is that although Firefox makes up a much smaller share than IE, Fx users are more web-savvy, spend more time on the internet and browse more webpages, so the actual percentage of page-loads by Firefox browsers compared to IE browsers is pretty close. (at least on many tech-related sites, and other sites that web-savvy folks go to ... Let's see the stats for Slashdot, I bet Fx beats out IE by a large margin!)

via Facebook 14 December, 2005 23:06

I totally agree with the argument that FX is used by people who actually are working the web. IE being the default browser on the Windows OS and Windows being the default OS on 9out of 9.1 PCs it's actually very remarkable that even 10% of users actually felt the need to download and use Firefox!

Some of the good features I have noticed about FX are:

1... faster page loads
2... better popup blocking (without addons mind you)
3... a multitude of plugins that really work (try stumble)
4... tabbed browsing (IE 7.0 has it... now)
5... source code checking (ever tried view selection source, it's a great idea)

there's a lot more that I could go on about but essentially the idea being that FX actually thinks out of the box for you whereas IE is just another browser!

via Facebook 27 December, 2005 11:49