Firefox 3 Market Share Stalling, But Adding To Firefox Base
Chicago (IL) - Firefox 3 downloads have topped 18 million earlier today and it appears that Mozilla has picked up market share from Microsoft, but it is hardly the windfall many would have expected. According to Net Applications, Firefox is up about 0.8 points and has the 20-percent mark in reach.
Almost three million downloads in 8 hours, more than eight million in 24 hours, twelve million in two days and 18.5 million in six days. Mozilla had a successful launch and, according to Net Applications, the impact of the browser hitting the web could be seen immediately: Within one hour after launch, the company estimated Firefox 3 usage share on the Internet at about 1.2-percent. 24 hours later it was at 3.7-percent and 48 hours later at 4.6-percent. Since then, the usage share has remained somewhat stable and it is fluctuating within the 3 to 5-percent range. At least if we believe Net Applications, Firefox 3 was not able to increase its usage share since Thursday last week.
However, the research firm today stated that Firefox 3 already contributed to the bottom line of Firefox market share. Vice president Vince Vizzacaro said that Firefox market share is up to 19.27-percent, up about 5-percent or 0.76 points from 18.41-percent in May. Microsoft lost 0.8 points to 72.95-percent and Apple’s Safari declined by 0.1 points to 6.15-percent. Opera 9.5, which was released last week as well, helped Opera software to climb by 0.04 points from 0.71-percent to 0.75-percent.
Net Applications said that its survey is based on usage data drawn from about 40,000 websites. Across the Internet, usage data may be vastly different.
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johnbilicki Statistics are always subjective and my site has had a solid 62.7% share for Firefox, 26.3% share for IE, 2.4% share for Safari, 0.9% for Opera, 0.5% for Mozilla Suite, 0.4% for Iceweasel, and 0.3% for SeaMonkey thus far this month.Reply
Also it would be nice if the author of the article would please fix the XHTML (which is being served as html any way) so we could read the entire article without having to look at the source code. -
DXRick I am a convert. I got tired of crashes and seeing "done with errors on page" with IE7. Firefox 3 is a lot faster and I have not had a crash or error yet! :)Reply