Browser Wars
Filed Under: Internet, Software
According to a new report, Firefox is closing in on the 10% mark with respect to market share. In addition, Dan Shapero of NetApplications claims that Microsoft is losing between 0.5 to 1.0 of market share each month.
“With its continued momentum, combined with significant media attention, Firefox has steadily increased its user-base each and every month. Firefox is starting to tempt the masses with it strong word of mouth referrals and is expected to gain significant traction once it gains acceptance by large corporations.”NetApplications said that at its current pace, Firefox will soon grab a 10 percent market share, “a significant milestone in its bid to steal thunder away from Microsoft’s de-facto industry standard browser, Internet Explorer.”
This does not surprise me in the least. In addition to having more leaks than a noodle strainer, IE is notoriously non-standards W3 compliant. For people like me who enjoy building websites and offer assistance in various HTML help forums this is a big deal. I’m forever telling people to stay away from IE. It simply does not know how to render certain pieces of HTML and CSS.
Some time back I did a post on what browsers visitors to this blog favoured. I decided to check into it again and pleasantly discovered that Firefox is ahead of its overall average accounting for 27% of the browser share here. Here is the data.
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