Once more, Firefox is at the losing end of browser market share ranks.
In September, Mozilla's browser dropped from 27.49 percent to 26.79 percent share and is now dangerously close to being surpassed by Chrome. According to data provided by StatCounter, IE also dropped and landed at 41.66 percent, which is a new low in StatCounter's charts and lowest level in 13 years, according to our own records. Chrome continues its pace and added almost half a point to 23.61 percent.
Far more interesting than the September market share data are the numbers that reflect the market shares on individual days, which reveals short-term trends. If we believe StatCounter's data, then both Firefox and IE are coming out of a bloody weekend, during which IE fell to as low as 38.39 percent, while Firefox held stable at 26.87 percent. However Chrome hit a record of 25.91 percent and was within less than 1 point of Firefox. If the current trend continues, then we will see Chrome exceeding Firefox market share on a weekend day within the next two weeks.
Firefox market share has been impacted by Mozilla's struggles to push out its rapid release versions fast enough and claim market share in the process - in a similar way Google does with Chrome. Meanwhile, Microsoft claims that IE9 is increasing its lead over its rivals on Windows 7 with more than 22 percent share (Microsoft cites Net Applications data). However, IE9 has remained below expectations overall. According to StatCounter, IE9 had about 10 percent market share over the weekend and an average of 9.59 percent in September.
Mozilla is clearly under pressure to find a way to fend off Google. Given the latest, numbers, however, the battle may already be lost - at least according to StatCounter.
The numbers beg to differ.
It's a shame cos Firefox has actually fixed up its major issues.
It no longer uses a ton of memory, it starts quickly, freezing in one tab doesn't affect another.
People complain about Flash crashing with Firefox but it's never happened to me so it's not an issue for me.
Some people who use Chrome reckon its awesome (and themselves too XD) and start going on about it but when you ask them questions about why it is so, they just give me the generic "it's faster and better" but can't explain anything more than that. I'd say they are more of a dumbass than someone who uses IE because "it's there".
P.S. I don't understand why Mozilla gets blamed for changing version numbers often and Google doesn't. It's like Google is a freakin' saint and everything that comes out of it is automatically wonderful. I like Google, but Picasa sucks, Google+ is BS and Chrome is meh. In. My. Opinion. Things might be different in other users' XP.
It's a shame that we will never see stats on the number of people who download software and inadvertently leave the completely unrelated 'install chrome, oh and also make it my default browser please' tickbox ticked.
In case anyone is wondering...according to my stats ABP has blocked statcounter 1631 times over the past few years.
Number 1 is *$donottrack,image,~image with 800,000 blocks! (second place is 90k).
In case anyone is wondering...according to my stats ABP has blocked statcounter 1631 times over the past few years.
Number 1 is *$donottrack,image,~image with 800,000 blocks! (second place is 90k).
Gotta love Adblock. I can't imagine how many hours of ad-free surfing experience it provided me with. I was VERY surprised when I visited Tom's and a few other sites I hang out at from a FF which didn't have Adblock. Turns out, they have ads!
Does Chrome have Adblock at all? I'd expect it to, but somehow it wouldn't make sense, since Google earns most of its money from ads and Adblock pwns them all... Chrome users, please respond
P.S. In 8 years of using the Internets, I've NEVER seen ANYONE who clicks on ads. I have no idea who would do so and why.
In case anyone is wondering...according to my stats ABP has blocked statcounter 1631 times over the past few years.
Number 1 is *$donottrack,image,~image with 800,000 blocks! (second place is 90k).
It's a shame cos Firefox has actually fixed up its major issues.
It no longer uses a ton of memory, it starts quickly, freezing in one tab doesn't affect another.
People complain about Flash crashing with Firefox but it's never happened to me so it's not an issue for me.
Some people who use Chrome reckon its awesome (and themselves too XD) and start going on about it but when you ask them questions about why it is so, they just give me the generic "it's faster and better" but can't explain anything more than that. I'd say they are more of a dumbass than someone who uses IE because "it's there".
P.S. I don't understand why Mozilla gets blamed for changing version numbers often and Google doesn't. It's like Google is a freakin' saint and everything that comes out of it is automatically wonderful. I like Google, but Picasa sucks, Google+ is BS and Chrome is meh. In. My. Opinion. Things might be different in other users' XP.