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Is FireFox’s Market Share REALLY 13% Worldwide?

Posted in Random by Dan at 12:16 pm
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Read some real interesting analysis on Watchmojo about their speculated installed user base of Firefox

Every time I notice someone send me a screen grab, I see they are on Mozilla. You would think 80% of the world’s users were on Mozilla, though in actuality, Mozilla’s numbers are 100M users worldwide, and given a global web user audience of 772M (comScore), that means that 1/7.72 or 13% of the world’s web users are in fact on Mozilla. Considering how badly MSFT pulverzied Netscape’s Navigator to grow to a 95%+ reach at its zenith, that’s not bad at all. I’d say today IE gets 80%, Mozilla gets 13% or so and Safari, Opera, etc., get 7%.

In fact, I think I am one of the few people in our world who still has a tendency to first open IE. I do that, of course, mainly because I want to see what the bulk of WatchMojo.com’s visitors see when they come to the site. Make no mistake about it, while Mozilla’s growth as an alternative browser has been nothing but admirable, it’s reach has yet to crack 20%.

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4 Responses to “Is FireFox’s Market Share REALLY 13% Worldwide?”

  1. Ian says:

    But as Steve Jobs once said, it’s better to be BMW or Mercedes than Ford or GM.

  2. Ayush says:

    Whats the specific browser breakdown at uneasysilence, you must be getting a higher Firefox Number

    the W3c says global Firefox Market Share is 34% for the month of June 07
    http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

  3. chad says:

    http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

    according to W3C (and this reflects the design, development, and informed community more than your average joe) FireFox has 34% of the market share. Which is good news :D

    Although these stats far from reflect your average user, it’s good to see the steady adoption of FireFox over the past couple years. I remember getting excited when they had 15% almost 2 years ago.

  4. dipnlik says:

    Typo on the headline, it´s Firefox.

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