Firefox Usage Tops 20% For November

[george]

Firefox Share Tops 20% for November

For the first time since we began tracking, the Firefox browser has exceeded 20% share for a full month. Mozilla's CEO, John Lilly, gives credit to the Mozilla community and shared his thoughts with us on this accomplishment:

"Reaching 20 percent worldwide market share is a significant milestone for Firefox and Mozilla. It's a huge achievement by the global Mozilla community, one that just a few years ago most would have considered impossible. The open web is more vibrant than ever, and the thousands of Mozilla contributors around the world have played a major role in making it that way."

Firefox share jumped about eight tenths of a percent in November, which is much higher than average. Why the big jump? In addition to the steady gains Firefox has shown over the years, our analysis shows four other major reasons:

First, the U.S. election. Firefox usage share increased significantly in the days surrounding November 4th (especially in some non-U.S. countries, like Japan), then held roughly steady until:

Second, the Thanksgiving holiday. Firefox share jumped starting on Wednesday the 26th until the end of the month.

Third, extra weekend days. The average 30-day month has 8.57 weekend days. November had 10.

Fourth, higher unemployment. With an increase in unemployment, a higher than typical percentage of people are browsing from home than the office

All four reasons increase Firefox share since Firefox has a much larger residential share than corporate share (to be detailed in a future analysis). So, all the above factors led to increased residential browsing and a higher Firefox share.

Even considering these factors, Firefox's share trend is pointing to above 20% share for December and beyond.

For these and other Global Market Share Statistics, go to marketshare.hitslink.com.

[Hobgoblin]

Why anyone would consciously use IE instead of Firefox is beyond me. It's like having a Mercedes and a Datsun in your garage and choosing the Datsun.

[Pattaya46]

Hi,

FireFox 20% Wolrdwide,

but more than 30% in Europe

http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-...-1-2-3-145.html

Why anyone would consciously use IE instead of Firefox is beyond me. It's like having a Mercedes and a Datsun in your garage and choosing the Datsun.

- because FF is very slow to start

- because FlashPlayer and other pluggins have big Cpu & Memory problems on FF

- because FF can't navigate on many sites designed for IE. By instance http://www.immigration.go.th/

- because ...

Many reasons for which I use both IE and FF, and now more and more Google Chrome.

[SidFernwilter]

Hi,

FireFox 20% Wolrdwide,

but more than 30% in Europe

http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-...-1-2-3-145.html

Why anyone would consciously use IE instead of Firefox is beyond me. It's like having a Mercedes and a Datsun in your garage and choosing the Datsun.

- because FF is very slow to start

- because FlashPlayer and other pluggins have big Cpu & Memory problems on FF

- because FF can't navigate on many sites designed for IE. By instance http://www.immigration.go.th/

- because ...

Many reasons for which I use both IE and FF, and now more and more Google Chrome.

I never encountered any problems with FF the way you describe it and the link you attached does not work in IE 7 either. My personal favorite at the moment are Opera 9.6 or Alpha 10, quick and stable and easy to use...

[PhilM]

- because FF can't navigate on many sites designed for IE.

There's an IE Tab add-on can mostly take care of that problem.

I'm starting to like Chrome too.

[Phil Conners]

Hi,

FireFox 20% Wolrdwide,

but more than 30% in Europe

http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-...-1-2-3-145.html

Why anyone would consciously use IE instead of Firefox is beyond me. It's like having a Mercedes and a Datsun in your garage and choosing the Datsun.

- because FF is very slow to start

- because FlashPlayer and other pluggins have big Cpu & Memory problems on FF

- because FF can't navigate on many sites designed for IE. By instance http://www.immigration.go.th/

- because ...

Many reasons for which I use both IE and FF, and now more and more Google Chrome.

- FF is slower to start than MSIE because M$ loads MSIE's DLL's together with Windows. This is something that has been addressed in countless courtcases against M$ and which they have been told over and over to remove but still refuse. Amazing what you can get away with with a couple of hundred billion USD in the bank.

- Never had any problems running flashplayer or other plugins in FF.

- MSIE does not follow W3C so to get sites to work properly in MSIE they need to be broken, hence they don't work in properly designed browsers such as MSIE, Chrome or Opera.

Chrome has by design great potential but needs to mature and provide plugins before it will gain wide acceptance.

Edited December 8, 2008 by Phil Conners