Mozilla gains 1% more market share over IE

[aww]

Mozilla (Firefox) has gained an overall average of 1% more marketshare over Internet Explorer.

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,116848,00.asp

Internet Explorer has held more than 95 percent of the browser market since June 2002, and until June had remained steady with about 95.7 percent of the browser market, according to WebSideStory's measurements. Over the last month, however, its market share has slowly dropped from 95.73 percent on June 4 to 94.73 percent on July 6.

A loss of 1 percent of the market may not mean much to Microsoft, but it translates into a large growth, proportionately, in the number of users running Mozilla and Netscape-based browsers. Mozilla and Netscape's combined market share has increased by 26 percent, rising from 3.21 percent of the market in June to 4.05 percent in July, Johnston said.

"It takes a lot to get someone to change their browser. It's been years since anyone has been willing to do this in significant numbers," he said.

IMHO Mozilla has an even higher market share than this when you look at non-newbie websites. And also consider that every AOL user is practically forced to use IE so all those millions get lopped in. I feel Mozilla really has broken the 10% market share with the 0.9 release of Firefox after studying various website logs.

Did you know that Namepros has a 13% Mozilla use?

 

[BLazeD]

I really like Mozilla, however some sites it makes stuff look different

Like this one - the quick reply box is much smaller

 

[jstep]

hmm...i quit using mozilla, because there latest version was not dling correctly

worth getting over opera?

 

[Riceman]

I am starting to like firefox a lot. Loads REAL fast

 

[aww]

The Mozilla team would like some help from FireFox fans:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/005930.html

 

[csmaster2005]

eh it's a bunch of bs.
mozilla/firefox is a much bigger percent than that.
My friend hosts www.gmailswap.com and they get about 16000-18000 uniques a day avg and their stats are as follows:

Browsers (Top 10) - Full list/Versions - Unknown
Browsers Grabber Hits Percent
MS Internet Explorer No 2556725 72.8 %
FireFox No 546486 15.5 %
Opera No 169876 4.8 %
Mozilla No 123201 3.5 %
Safari No 54470 1.5 %
Netscape No 33335 0.9 %
Firebird (Old FireFox) No 8468 0.2 %
Unknown ? 6182 0.1 %
Camino No 3591 0.1 %
Konqueror No 2793 0 %
Others 3553 0.1 %

 

[Jeanco]

My Stats from www.epasture.com

MS Internet Explorer No 40564 85.6 %
Mozilla No 4434 9.3 %
Unknown ? 848 1.7 %
Opera No 683 1.4 %
Safari No 302 0.6 %
Netscape No 287 0.6 %
Konqueror No 114 0.2 %
Firebird No 76 0.1 %

 

[Webtwink]

I am glad that i switched to the Mozilla Bandwagon

 

[Darkfire001]

I plan on using Firefox when a more stable version comes out.

 

[Jeanco]

We also have to keep in mind that a lot of our personal sites are tailored to our hobbies, and are linked to from technical sites be it domain names or hosting.

The visitors coming to that kind of site are more up to date with whats happening online. I'd be interested in seeing a more generic site like tsn.ca or espn.com and seeing what their browser percentages are like.

 

[Raf]

Awesome, thanks for bringing us the news aww.

 

[lotsofissues]

Resistance is futile.

 

[Anthony]

IE 95% -- Mozilla 5%

That's a long, long way to go...