Ron Schenone

Firefox Market Share To Hit 20%

Posted by on Jun 3, 2008 | 4 Comments

Mozilla Firefox should hit a milestone and reach a 20% market share by July, 2008 says Net Applications. Firefox has been slowly, but steadly, taking market share away from Internet Explorer, the once dominate browser. It appears that Firefoxwill continue to eat at market share as the browser continues to gain in popularity. According to the source article:

“Firefox is trending to hit 20 percent market share some time in July,” said Vince Vizzaccaro, the company’s executive vice president of marketing, in an email.

May’s share was a Net Applications record for the open-source browser, and resumed gains that had been interrupted in April when its share dropped slightly. The one-month increase was also the largest by Firefox since March 2007.

“Firefox is surging again, but their gains when reviewed over time aren’t out of the ordinary,” said Vizzaccaro. “Other than the stagnation Firefox experienced in mid-2007, their growth has been fairly consistent.”

Vizzaccaro was referring to several months last summer when Mozilla’s flagship browser slipped in market share, including May 2007.

Although Vizzaccaro didn’t pin all of Firefox’s increase on a change last month to its update dialogue, he did note the new approach. “Mozilla has implemented a change in Firefox 3.0 RC1 [Release Candidate 1] where the installation now has a checkbox that defaults to making Firefox your default browser,” he noted.

I personally believe that once Firefox 3 is finally released, the 20% market share will become a reality. Next step. 25% and beyond! :-)

Comments welcome.

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  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/theoracle/ the oracle

    The share is much higher in Europe, 43% was a figure I saw quoted. Opera usage is much higher also, and Microsoft has less than 50%.

  • Ryan

    I congratulate Microsoft for becoming so inept and apathetic that people go out of their way to use Firefox, even though IE is welded on to Windows without an option to uninstall it, which is quite ridiculous.

    In a Linux system, you can remove most anything you want, even the X windowing system is in fact, quite optional.

    Firefox has the best browser and Firefox 3 is pretty much the last nail in the IE vs Firefox debate, I especially like the revamped History where you can search through the pages you’ve been to as long as you can remember practically anything that the page was about, and last session restore is awesome.

    I wonder how long it takes Microsoft to “innovate” all this stuff into IE, now that the IE 8 beta more or less equates to Firefox 2 (2006).

  • Don Naphen

    Ron; any idea when the released version will be available? Can’t imagine anyone still using IE these days!

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hello Don,
    There seems that a RC2 version will come first to clear up some bugs. A guess……. late June. I hope they take their time and get the final bug free. :-)

    Update: RC2 was released today. New rumor is the final will be mid-June.