Firefox unaffected by IE7 ‘growth’
p2pnet.net News:- Bill and the Boyz are bragging they’ve had the 100 millionth installation of Internet Explorer 7.
But the automatic upgrade means IE7 is, “simply being swapped out for older editions and hasn’t had an impact on Firefox’s continued climb,” says InformationWeek.
Its growth, “seems to be exclusively at the expense of IE 6,” it has Geoff Johnston, an analyst with the Web metrics company, saying. “It’s not eating into the Firefox share at all.”
Firefox’s share of the US browser market is at 14% and has continued to grow each of the last three months, the story has Johnston saying.
“I thought that IE 7 might flatten Firefox’s growth, but it’s not taken a hit from IE 7. All the movement there has been internal, from IE 6 users upgrading,” he says.
Net Applications confirmed the switch to IE 7 in its most recent data, and also noted the continued slide of IE overall, says InformationWeek, going on:.
“According to Net Applications, Internet Explorer accounted for 79.6% of all browsers used in December 2006, a drop from the 80.6% during the previous month. Firefox’s use, meanwhile, measured 14% in December, up from 13.5% in November. Also gaining ground in the last month of 2006 was Apple’s Safari, which climbed to 4.2% from 4%, and Opera, which saw its share increase from 0.7% to 0.9%.”
Maybe Microsoft has, “met its match with Firefox,” adds Johnston. “Maybe it just can’t compete against open-source and the whole world [as developers].”
Also See:
InformationWeek – Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft’s Browser Still Loses Ground, January 16, 2007
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January 19th, 2007 at 5:33 am
YES!
I’ve been using Firefox since it was Firebird, and I’m NEVER going back. I’m also using Windows on my main desktop but every other machine in my house and every laptop I carry has Linux as the primary OS…with Firefox installed.
I fix computers on-site…and every client I go to, I inform about Firefox. Some don’t switch because of incompatibilities with a couple of web sites, some still need IE for their (admittedly lame) financial institution, some need IE for work, and some are just unable to change period, but 95% of the people I visit move to Firefox, especially when I tell them about how I almost got infected with a virus just using IE to LOOK at an infected IIS server’s pages…
Now that Firefox is well above 10% market share, we should start to see a slow movement by the lazy bastards who do poor quality web design to support Firefox properly, which usually means other browsers benefit too (Opera, elinks, etc.)
Firefox isn’t perfect, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t better…and I find that where IE back in the day seemed pretty fast overall, now it always seems to start faster than Firefox yet perform so much worse on page loads, to the point that I’m noticing…especially IE7, which seems to be the worst offender of them all on slow page loads…