According to Janco Associates' browser market share survey which wrapped up at the end of Janary, IE is down to 84.85% of the market and Firefox is up to 4.48%. That puts Firefox in second place and ahead of AOL. Add in the Mozilla browser and Gecko is up over 8.5%. They've got some nifty looking charts there, so head over and take a look.
Posted by asa at February 11, 2005 12:26 AMPlus at least 2% for Netscape 7 and you get to 10%.
The only problem is that we have no idea whatsoever what these stats are counting, what sites ? How many sites ? How many visitors ? US only ? Business or residential...
Posted by: pascal on February 11, 2005 12:39 AMWhy cant people write Firefox the correct way? Why do people write FireFox?
It's called Firefox and NOT FireFox!
I was just over at W3Schools, and their browser stats put Firefox alone at 20% this month. I wouldn't be that suprised if the same happened in more mainstream stats, it just takes more time.
Well, it's a pity they incorporated the data from February, which isn't over yet. Now it seems there's a huge decline. :)
These stats show very little new evidence. Fx has been between four and five percent for ages.
Why is it that the Fx coders seem to be happy to sit back and watch stats? %5 is the best of the rest but there's a long way to go. I'd prefer to start hearing more about interesting feature or bug fixes in upcoming releases.
Posted by: pd on February 11, 2005 02:59 AMpd, I'm not a Firefox coder.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on February 11, 2005 06:42 AMJust read on GoogleNews: Alternative Browsers Gain Momentum (New York Times)
After reading the article I stumbled on another article "Yahoo Toolbar now available for Firefox"
Don't think that these numbers are of much relevance. Another graphic of the same study (http://www.e-janco.com/browserimages/Trend.jpg) gives Mozilla a market share of nearly 20% in 2001.
Posted by: stone on February 11, 2005 12:31 PMhttp://www.e-janco.com/browserimages/Trend.jpg
The trend diagram ist really very strange. I think, in the years 2001 and 2002 they count every Mozilla- and Netscape browser as Mozilla. Nearly no usage of an AOL branded browser in 2002 seems very strange, too.
Posted by: w_j_s on February 11, 2005 12:31 PMHey, according to that chart, Firefox sinks to zero this month! What can we do to counter this?
Posted by: Greg K Nicholson on February 11, 2005 05:11 PMHmmm, Safari isn't in those stats, wondered where else tse users have been accounted for.
Posted by: Gids on February 12, 2005 04:06 AMThe numbers for "2005 - Q1" seems to sum to somewhat over 100%.
Posted by: Anders on February 12, 2005 05:39 PM
