Firefox slips a little
p2pnet.net News:- For the first time since its launch, Mozilla’s Firefox’s rapid rise up the browser charts has slipped. But not by a lot.
“Over July, Internet Explorer - Microsoft’s dominant browser - regained lost ground, growing from 86.6 percent in June to 87.2 percent. Firefox’s share shrunk to 8.1 percent from 8.7 percent,” says the IDG News Service, quoting NetApplications.com.
Safari ranked was in third place and its share was up slightly to 2.13 percent from 1.93 percent, while Netscape was down to 1.50 percent from 1.55 percent.
“Opera came in fifth with a 0.49 percent market share,” says the story.
Mozilla recently announced it had started the Mozilla Corporation to look after revenue-generating activities associated with products such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
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IDG News Service - Firefox market share slips, August 15, 2005
revenue-generating - Meet Mozilla Corp, p2pnet, August 3, 2005
August 16th, 2005 at 5:23 pm
Wait till IE 7.0 is released, and watch FF fall like a rock. Guess the honeymoon is over..
August 16th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
Don’t believe it. IE has been er re-born over and over and viruses, spyware, malware of all sorts is still with us and doing well. Security is just as bad as ever with IE. This version will be no exception in holes everywhere and patches floating in one after another, all with the attempt to patch a leaky bucket with far more holes that patches.
Firefox went up for a reason. Folks will continue to use it no matter how nice a shine is put on the baubble called IE.
However, should Firefox charge for the browser then yes, people will revert to IE. However, I am quite sure I won’t be one using IE. Myself I prefer Konquer.
August 17th, 2005 at 6:06 am
I think it’s because of everyone testing the IE7 beta personally. You can’t help curiosity. I’m sure all those using IE6 will switch to IE7 when it’s officially released, but since they were already using IE to begin with you won’t see a change in overall browser usage from them. I think the numbers will eventually go back to the way they were once the shiny bauble factor of IE7 has worn off, and when we see a *major* upgrade to Firefox the numbers will likely change a lot in it’s favor. The thing Firefox really has going for it is that once people switch to it, they’re unlikely to switch back to what they were using once they see how much better it is.
August 23rd, 2005 at 11:40 pm
Checkout userfriendly.org
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050818