Net Applications, purveyors of web metrics data, published some interesting asides about Mozilla's Firefox in this month's newsletter. Specifically, they're projecting that users of the world's favorite alternative browser will account for 20% of all web traffic sometime in July.
"Net Applications Global Internet Usage Market Share for May 2008 shows Firefox gaining more momentum," said Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president, marketing. "Firefox market share for May was 18.41% up from 17.76% in April. If recent trends continue, Firefox should achieve 20% market share some time in July."
Source: Net Applications
It's all in the timing
However, with Firefox 3 RC 1 already in circulation and the full release expected soon, Mozilla may be able to steal a march and shoot past 20% before the end of June.
Further, Firefox 3 RC 1 has received praise—it's my browser of choice—for its speed and stability from users and pundits. Already, prerelease versions of Firefox 3 account for close to 1% of web traffic as measured by Net Applications
Lastly, SpreadFirefox.com is planning a major marketing push for the release of Firefox 3 with the Download Day 2008 promotion, whereby backers hope to break the single-day record for the number of downloads for a single piece of software.
Whereas Firefox growth to date has been slow and steady, it seems to me that the time may be right for a major surge in adoption. If Firefox 3 is released by the middle of June, "20% market share some time in July" may be too conservative an estimate...
RC 1 is just so smooth. The only thing missing is add-on compatibility. Hope they're not holding final code for that, though.
Posted by Guest Poster #2 on 06/03/08 11:18 PM
It was the same for Firefox 2. Most companies who provide extensions wait until the final release before releasing their update. Most open source and community add-ons are already updated and in use.
July will be a big month for Firefox.
Posted by Guest Poster #3 on 06/03/08 11:35 PM
I thought firefox was called mozilla firefox...
correctly me if i'm wrong.
Posted by Guest Poster #4 on 06/04/08 3:49 AM
Before you guys make your mind up about Firefox being the best browser, check out the latest beta release of Opera.
Opera Posted by Guest Poster #5 on 06/04/08 7:09 AM
Not sure where you get your info, but i'm pretty sure the W3schools has the better statistics.
Read them here: LINK
Where do you get your info? Posted by Ramsez on 06/04/08 9:13 AM
Not sure where you get your info, but i'm pretty sure the W3schools has the better statistics.
Read them here: LINK
Where do you get your info? Posted by Ramsez on 06/04/08 9:14 AM
Web content developers care about whether what they made works for their visitors.
Anything Mozilla, Safari and Opera can be grouped as "browsers decently supporting open standards (HTML,CSS,JavaScript,XML". These are much more similar than IE7 and IE6, both in quite different ways, badly supporting those open standards.
market share of standards supporting browsers and others Posted by stelt on 06/04/08 4:30 PM
The statistics from W3schools are horribly misleading. They are the stats of mostly web developers and not everyday web users. Don't be fooled.
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