Firefox Market Share Slips

Posted on Aug 15, 2005

Another interesting news tidbit was this PC World Article stating recent research by NetApplications.com that indicates that "Firefox's share shrunk to 8.07 percent from 8.71 percent in June, while IE grew its market slice to 87.20 percent in July from 86.56 percent last month." They didn't really offer any potential explanation other than to state that they were "surprised" and that they had expected Firefox's market share gains to slow rather than start to decline. Obviously, IE 7 is not yet a factor...so what gives? Just a blip?

 

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Pete Freitag See this article for some reasons why: http://webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_08.html#a000545

Posted By Pete Freitag / Posted on 08/15/2005 at 3:23 PM

Brian Rinaldi Thanks Pete. My gut reaction was much like what they said in the link you supplied...I had never heard of NetApplications.com, and the stats sounded slightly dubious, especially given the lack of any real motivation for the sudden change (albeit a small one). Even if it were true, a single month does not a trend make...

Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 08/15/2005 at 3:34 PM

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My name is Brian Rinaldi and I am the Web Community Manager for Flash Platform at Adobe. I am a regular blogger, speaker and author. I also founded RIA Unleashed conference in Boston. The views expressed on this site are my own & not those of my employer.