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November 21, 2004
OneStat.com - Mozilla Share is 7.35%, Most Used Mozilla Browser is Firefox 0.1
How the hell does Firefox 0.1 have so much marketshare compared to Mozilla 1.x and Firefox 1.0? More likely they mean the Preview release, called 0.10.
One day web statistics will make sense.
Posted by doron at November 21, 2004 7:18 PM
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I'm certain that's what they mean. There has never been a Firefox 0.1. :) It was called Phoenix at the time.
Posted by: Dave Miller at November 21, 2004 10:11 PM
With no comments right now, this post's header shows that "And so it begins..." at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/doron/archives/003452.html is your next post. This is obviously completely wrong.
I seem to remember reading about a similar problem on Asa's blog recently (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/006921.html). This may be a MT problem for kerz to examine and possibly report to Six Apart if necessary.
As I haven't posted yet, I can't verify whether the error disappears after a post is made as occurred with the previous report. I'll post back afterwards with a report.
Posted by: Jeff Walden at November 21, 2004 10:16 PM
This is really interesting. Out of 23 firefox users, only 9 are using 1.0. That means there are still 14 out of 23 (at least - where are the older FF versions?) who haven't yet updated.
Posted by: David Naylor at November 21, 2004 10:44 PM
Seems to me they're pulling these numbers out of their butt, and it really makes me want to avoid their "web analysis services" - and I use the word analysis loosely. The tech and standards websites all put the Mozilla aggregate at 18-20% overall (check w3schools). General public is estimated at 10% and climbing from what I've heard, and if a user was savvy enough to jump to Phoenix .1 it seems to me they'd be savvy enough to keep up with updates, even over the long period of time. I've never seen a Firefox install earlier than .9 recently - and I'm in tech supprt. So. Yeah. :)
Posted by: Jim D at November 21, 2004 10:51 PM
There is no such thing as Firefox 0.1, I'm not even sure if there was ever a Phoenix 0.1. I'm sure they mean the preview release, those stats are probably too old to register much usage of 1.0.
Posted by: Ian at November 22, 2004 1:46 AM
well, they DO mentioned that "The new Mozilla's Firefox has a total usage share of 4.58", so they are not quite wrong, the basic problem is why Mozilla.org used that "0.10", thats something i still not understand.
Posted by: wfeng at November 22, 2004 6:42 AM
> General public is estimated at 10% and climbing from what I've heard...
Where did you hear that? I've been seeing numbers of 4-8% for Mozilla usage on mainstream sites.
Posted by: Steve Chapel at November 22, 2004 8:06 AM
The MoFo used major version zero, minor version 10 ("0.10") as it followed major version zero, minor version nine ("0.9"). They're not decimal numbers.
Posted by: Greg K Nicholson at November 22, 2004 9:27 AM
> They're not decimal numbers.
It's a wonder that people still do think that after versions like 0.10.1 or 1.0RC ...
Posted by: anonymous at November 23, 2004 10:49 AM