Is Firefox Approaching 50% Market Share?

Thursday, November 19, 2009
By Ken Kovash
Is Firefox Approaching 50% Market Share?

At least in one large region of the world, the answer is “yes”. The folks at Gemius have been kind enough to aggregate their individual country data (e.g., www.en.ranking.pl/) into a single view across their entire sample – a sample totaling more than 60 Billion page views each month.  For an overview of the various... »

What People Say After Installing Firefox

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
By Ken Kovash
What People Say After Installing Firefox

Let’s start with the punch line: People love Firefox! There is a small segment of existing users running into a particular problem – Firefox is not saving their preferences Taking a step back, let’s walk through how we arrived at these findings.  We previously described our efforts integrating user outreach into mozilla.com.  For this post, we’re going... »

Firefox Hits 25% Market Share on its Birthday

Monday, November 9, 2009
By Ken Kovash
Firefox Hits 25% Market Share on its Birthday

At the very same moment in time that Firefox celebrates its 5th birthday, Firefox has also surpassed 25% worldwide market share for the very first time.   This news comes from Net Applications’ report for the week of November 1st (their weekly data requires a subscription). Congrats everyone! For those interested in “before and after” pictures, below... »

200,000 Firefox Users Update Their Plugins

Friday, October 23, 2009
By Ken Kovash
200,000 Firefox Users Update Their Plugins

Mozilla recently announced the launch of a “plugin check” page (pictured below), allowing users to see a list of their installed plugins and whether or not any updates are needed.  This comes on the heels of a program where we successfully helped more than 10,000,000 Firefox users with a non-current version of Flash get... »

Predicting Firefox Growth

Monday, October 12, 2009
By bcutler
Predicting Firefox Growth

Our Metrics intern, Eric Hergenrader, did some terrific work analyzing fluctuations in Firefox usage.  Using a linear regression, he found that this summer’s decline in Firefox use was largely in line with expectations; a 2-3% decline in July and August is typical.  In addition to seasonality, Eric found that three factors driving usage drops... »