Betas market share: IE 52%, Firefox 48%
Posted by Percy Cabello on September 28th, 2006 • Tags:
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This is a special announcement for statistics freaks. French web analyzer, Xiti Monitor has just released statistics (fr-FR) revealing that among beta version browser users, Firefox is preferred by 48% (or about 0.7% of all users) while the rest uses some Internet Explorer 7 beta (52% or about 1% of all users).

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Anonymous Coward said on September 28, 2006, 2:19 pm:

I like the way the sentence is turned: “Firefox is peferred by 48% with the rest using IE”.
You should work for Fox News!

Walter J said on September 28, 2006, 7:03 pm:

While this is interesting and probably very encouraging for Firefox and Firefox users, I think the more important issue would be which browser are people using that isn’t beta?

The fact that betas (even release candidates) have bugs probably scares off both the regular Joe “I just want to browse without problems” user and the Paranoid Joe “Do any of these bugs mean security holes?” user. Me? I’m the stubborn, lazy, “Meh..what I’ve got works” user. :)

percy said on September 29, 2006, 8:21 am:

Walter J. Actually, this wasn’t supposed to be “serious news” since as you say betas market share must be among the most worthless and trivial news around. Actual releases figures according to the same source place IE around 83% and Firefox around 14% for global statistics.

This was intended more as a fun fact.

kbglob - tecnologia para geeks, no para tu mamá » Mercado de navegadores Beta said on October 2, 2006, 11:51 pm:

[...] La empresa de análisis francesa Xiti Monitor publicó estadísticas sobre el uso de las versiones beta de Firefox(2.0) e Internet explorer(7.0). Por lo que ahi dicen hoy en día el 52% de los usuarios de navegadores beta usa IE mientras que el 48% usa Firefox. Las versiones beta son mayormente usadas por desarrolladores, lo que muestra hacia donde apunta parte de la industria de las tecnologías. [...]

Greg said on October 4, 2006, 10:30 pm:

I wonder how many people have both?

Phil Deets said on November 24, 2007, 1:54 am:

That can’t be an exact statistic because I am writing this in Opera 9.5 beta. :P

Phil Deets said on November 24, 2007, 1:56 am:

oops, I didn’t notice this was over a year old, sorry :)

Brendan said on January 16, 2008, 11:41 am:

I use Gran Paradiso, I wonder how many others do???