Firefox continues its climb. Wired reports that Firefox has gained another 2% at the expense of IE since Ocober. Alternative browsers Opera and Safari remain mostly unchanged.
Checking in at BoingBoing, Firefox has established a new high with over 50% of BoingBoing readers using Firefox. Along with other Firefox-based browsers, we're quickly approaching a dominant 55% of their readership. IE follows with only 26% and the alternative browsers, Safari and Opera coming in at about 12% and 2% respectively.
Posted by: Jilles van Gurp | January 24, 2007 12:34 PM
This is interesting news. Some of those numbers are huge.
Posted by: Devon | January 24, 2007 1:56 PM
Congratulations. I keep moving friends and family to Firefox, they appreciate the improvements over MSIE, but the "more or less ignorant" don't understand what's going on and months later I find they're mysteriously back to the blue 'e'. Entropy!
> Firefox continues it's climb
This is not a contraction of "it is" or "it has", so no apostrophe. "Its" is already a possessive pronoun, like "his" or "hers".
Posted by: skierpage | January 24, 2007 2:24 PM
s/Firefox-based browsers/Mozilla based browsers/ or s/Firefox-based browsers/Gecko based browsers/
Posted by: James | January 24, 2007 3:24 PM
James, sure, but Firefox is the name people recognize. A perfect corrolary to all of the "IE-based browsers" which are actually "Trident" based browsers (or, if you like "MSHTML-based browsers". Very few people know what the heck Trident or MSHTML are, and even fewer know what Gecko is. I see no reason to try to force people to learn a new brand when Firefox works just fine.
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Posted by: Asa Dotzler | January 24, 2007 3:30 PM
The W3C stats have recently been updated, and show similar patterns:
Posted by: David Naylor | January 24, 2007 6:04 PM
I hope you do know that BoingBoing and Wired are both tech related websites. You need to get stats from Google or CNN to get real statistical data for the average user...not tech savy people who know what Firefox is.
Posted by: Corey Farwell | January 24, 2007 9:30 PM
Corey, wow. I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know.
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Posted by: Asa Dotzler | January 24, 2007 9:39 PM
LOL Asa, I am sure you meant: "David, wow."
Or are you being sarcastic ;o) You need a holiday man...
Posted by: marco | January 24, 2007 10:36 PM
sarcasm :)
Posted by: Asa Dotzler | January 24, 2007 10:53 PM
Marco, he meant Corey, I'm pretty sure ;)
Posted by: David Naylor | January 25, 2007 2:59 AM
err, corey what is this "CNN" your taking about?
Posted by: the average user | January 26, 2007 8:34 PM
Asa,
People know what Mozilla is - Mozilla based browsers would work I think.
Posted by: Cameron | January 29, 2007 4:18 AM
I was just checking the statistics for my own site, which admittedly is biased towards "less ignorant" users. Firefox is now solidly in the lead with 54% of users. Also a majority of those is using firefox 2.0. Only 41% of users is using internet explorer and most of those are NOT using ie 7 yet (i.e. don't even bother to upgrade to a newer version of the same browser). the remaining users go mostly to Apple safari (5%) and opera about 1%. I guess that is pretty good because up until about three months ago, internet explorer was leading and safari and opera were noise in the stats.
The one thing I am deducing from the stats is that among knowledgeable users, the release of IE7 and firefox 2.0 has led to internet explorers marketshare decreasing and Firefox's marketshare increasing. From where I'm standing, that looks pretty bad for MS. Also the other two major browsers continue to show healthy growth with Safari now getting percentages that used to be the cause of big headlines on your blog for firefox :-).