Comments on: Betas market share: IE 52%, Firefox 48%

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:41:08 +0000

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

By: Phil Deets

Phil Deets — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:56:10 +0000

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

By: Phil Deets

Phil Deets — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:54:26 +0000

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

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:30:02 +0000

I wonder how many people have both?

By: kbglob - tecnologia para geeks, no para tu mamá » Mercado de navegadores Beta

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:51:13 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: percy

percy — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:21:59 +0000

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.

By: Walter J

Walter J — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:03:50 +0000

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. :)

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:19:26 +0000

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