Firefox sets new record, cracks 19% market share

computerworld.com — Mozilla Corp. used the launch of Firefox 3.0 last month to boost its browser market share to over 19%, an Internet measurement company said today.Most of Firefox's increase came during the week following Version 3.0's release, when the combined share of Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 jumped from 18.2% before the June 17 launch to 18.6% immediately after. Jul 2, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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kibibytebrain Jul 3, 2008

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Although, apparently experienced geeks who are inexperienced spellers can still apply to the Firefox camp. I think its more fair to say that Firefox(or Opera or elinks or notepad and rendering the code in your brain or whatever you like) is for people who care at all about what web browser they use, and the default is for everyone else. Besides, I don't think MS maintains IE as much as a serious web browser as a concept platform for their .net HTML rendering components. Lots of .net applications use IE components to do stuff.

dn11 Jul 3, 2008

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explain to me what is so special about Opera again? I keep trying it, never have much liked it.

Closed Account Jul 3, 2008

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Still only 2 in 10.

alexrrr Jul 3, 2008

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Couldn't agree more.. how many times friends have approached me with the dreaded "You know about computers right? My internet is not working" only to find out a spyware infested IE installation.Also i think that i would be nice to have Opera also have more percentage, we want balance in the force.

phantomjm Jul 3, 2008

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At my company (a major ISP), We strongly encourage our customers to run Firefox due to its speed, security, and reliability. When we first show it to them, the most common comment we get is that they've never heard of anything but IE. Most people we setup with Firefox stay with Firefox. Great work guys!

visitmyblogplz Jul 3, 2008

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Lol, I didn't say any inaccurate information. Opera became free before Firefox came out. There were just ads on the top. Sorry, but you fail.

chaoswings Jul 4, 2008

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It's pointless viewing adverts if you have no intention of clicking on them. Think about it, those who use adblock are those least likely to click on ads. Advertisers have destroyed any good will they had left with people. They disguise ads as dialog boxes and various other things that resemble legit content on the website. Let's not even go into video sites that use ads with sound that are impossible to turn off without an extension. These ads drive people away. Unfortunately it is the actions of these advertisers (majority or not) that have driven people to use adblock. One bad apple ruins the whole barrel.

swicken Jul 4, 2008

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Uh oh, someone doesn't know what they're talking aboutttttttt.

eclipsegsx Jul 4, 2008

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I know where you're coming from, and I apologize for making a blanket statement as a comment here. If they're people that I know are receptive of change (generally people in my age range), I will explain the benefits of FF and that's that. For my parents?... not so easy. For the higher-ups in the company I support? ... yeah. Would I ever do it to company PCs that need to connect to intranet sites? Of course not. Until FF can support internal websites like IE, they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of gaining market share on the corporate side. Sure, you or I might know how to add URLs to the "intranet" (as far as FF is concerned) by using about:config, but something tells me that 99.9% of people in a corporate environment don't.