Monday, January 5th 2009
Firefox Breaks 20% Market Share Mark
Firefox, Mozilla's most successful web browser based on the Gecko browser engine holds more than 20% of the web-browser market share, according to the latest figures by NetApplications placing it at 21.34%. Web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari have been on a roll in the past 24 months, at the expense of Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) which has been falling in market-share from the 90+ percent it once held.
Mozilla's CEO John Lilly calls this as a significant milestone for Mozilla, and gives credit to the global Mozilla community. NetApplications gets into the details of how Firefox gained a market share growth of 20%, by attributing it to the relatively high number of public holidays between November and December, when users accessed internet from home. This since the significant movers were noted to be home/domestic users rather than corporate users.
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NetApplications
Mozilla's CEO John Lilly calls this as a significant milestone for Mozilla, and gives credit to the global Mozilla community. NetApplications gets into the details of how Firefox gained a market share growth of 20%, by attributing it to the relatively high number of public holidays between November and December, when users accessed internet from home. This since the significant movers were noted to be home/domestic users rather than corporate users.
26 Comments on Firefox Breaks 20% Market Share Mark
That being said, Netscape did keep updating all the way until version 9.0.0.5, which was actually a modified form of Firefox 2, and wasn't all that bad of a browser.
From that chart, though, I'm more surprised at the surge in Safari usage!
They really should have been separate, though -- notice how the chart data separates "Opera Mini" away from regular Opera. Not really fair to lump mobile Safari users into Safari desktop users, especially since the two versions don't provide the same experience. :ohwell:
I did use firefox but I kept being dragged back to IE when I opened link or signed into MSN. Im surprised to see so little people using safari, I thought macs were more popular than that! Especially considering some people run safari from their windows machine....
Firefox suckas
:eek:Blasphemy:eek:
And if you don't like the tracking Chrome does, use SRWare's Iron. :D
i bet the only opera users are people who use the wii/ds/phone to surf the webternetz...