Comments on: Firefox global market share reaches 21.1%

By: alan stoner

alan stoner — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:53:11 +0000

I looked at this page http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/firefox-global-market-share-reaches-211/ with Firefox 3 and half of the first chart did not show. So I tried with IE - shambolic. Went back to Firefox and refreshed. This time the first chart didn’t appear at all.

Not sure what it proves but it wasn’t impressive!

By: Bend in the Weather

Bend in the Weather — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:27:21 +0000

Firefox 3 - Come break a world record!…

At 3:00am AEST on Wednesday 18th of June will herald the release of Firefox 3.

It’s a big jump ahead from the heady days of Firefox 1 and Firefox 2 days. This version includes over 15,000 enhancements from the 2.x series. It’s faster, funki…

By: ‘Baking’ Location into the Browser « Screenwerk

‘Baking’ Location into the Browser « Screenwerk — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:12:53 +0000

[...] of the NY Times covers the new “browser wars,” IE vs. Firefox and Safari. While the numbers differ, in Europe Firefox is north of 35% and in some countries north of 40%, while in the US it’s [...]

By: PSoTD

PSoTD — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:15:55 +0000

Firefox…

Web developers have to make sure their code works for the Firefox browser. I must admit to being surprised, in the past week I’ve run into two sites which don’t work on Firefox, and that’s really not a good idea. After all……

By: Firefox progresse mais reste un outil utilisé par les geeks

Firefox progresse mais reste un outil utilisé par les geeks — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:25:38 +0000

[...] le savez tous, Firefox atteint aujourd’hui une part de marché de 21% sur le business des navigateurs Internet. Ce qui est intéressant c’est de voir comment se [...]

By: The State of Mozilla and Open Source in Asia : New Web 2.0 Magazine

The State of Mozilla and Open Source in Asia : New Web 2.0 Magazine — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:05 +0000

[...] in Eurpoe, 16-17% in US, and lower market shares in Asia — it’s 16.5% according to a recent post on Mozilla Links. See graphs [...]

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Mozilla Issues Firefox 2.0.0.12 Security Update — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:18:49 +0000

[...] released Firefox 2.0.0.12, an updated version of the upstart browser that has won over roughly one out of every five Internet users worldwide. The 2.0.0.12 update addresses 10 security advisories, three of which Mozilla classifies as [...]

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By: Max Williams

Max Williams — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:27:28 +0000

What about the share in Australia?

There is abysmal ignorance in Australia regarding alternatives to MS. mention FF, and people think you are an unbalanced geek from another planet.

Mention Thunderbird, OO, or Lotus Symphony, and they will consign you to the psycho ward.

Even the Government wants submissions in MSWord, and refuses pdf files!

What do we do to help reverse this!!!!!!

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:36:24 +0000

Pete, from the article: “So, based on XiTi and IWS’s statistics, roughly 1 in 5 Internet users prefer Firefox, assuming Internet and web usage are correlated.”

By: Kmeleon

Kmeleon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:41:35 +0000

what about kmeleon??

By: Pete Fairhurst

Pete Fairhurst — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:25:39 +0000

Considering these graphs would appear to be based on traffic for MozillaLinks.org, I’d say barely breaking the 20% mark is pretty embarrassing.

I’ll wait to hear from the BBC what their useragent stats are before getting too excited.

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:36 +0000

Asa, I would think that the ratio of Firefox to IE usage per user is a known metric or not too hard to get. That would certainly help clear things up.

By: Asa Dotzler

Asa Dotzler — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:25:18 +0000

Percy, I think the big discrepancy you see as an undercount in Mozilla users is actually that what these market share studies (like XiTi and WebSideStory, etc) are showing is not “users” but rather “usage”. A Firefox user may visit more pages and more often than a not-Firefox user and so could give Firefox more “usage” than an average IE user gives IE usage. Does that make sense?

Now, I don’t think that Firefox users use the Web fully twice as much as IE users, so I think it’s reasonable to put the number of Firefox users at well over half of your 266 million figure. Based on our Active Daily Users now hitting 50 million, I’d wager that our total users is somewhere over 150 million though still somewhat below your optimistic 266 million.

Measuring is hard. The one thing we do know from all of the various attempts at measuring users and usage is that we’re growing at the expense of IE, have been for more than 3 years, and that’s a good thing.

- A

By: David

David — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:13:58 +0000

Nice calculation! Could well be true! :)

By: Emo

Emo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:52:31 +0000

Happy to read this :)