It’s Official – Firefox Surpasses 20% Worldwide Market Share
Ken Kovash 
Congratulations to the Mozilla community for reaching this historic milestone!
For the first time in either a weekly or monthly period, Firefox surpassed 20% worldwide market share (according to Net Applications). You can read the featured report here.
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While I think this is great, in my opinion market share is a lot more important on a country-by-country basis.
You might think you can now approach some important site (like a bank) that is not Mozilla friendly, and say, “look 1 out of 5 people online use this”, and they’d say “No, actually it’s only 1 out of 20″, and just keep their bad practices unchanged.
Nice one
+w00t!
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=1
It’s not 20% here anyway
If Net Applications relies on measurement by advertisements being hit by the useragent string, would the number of people with Adblock Plus installed ( the most used extension voluntarily installed according to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/compatibility/report/3.1 ) in Firefox mean that the reported percentage is lower than the actual percentage?
To Eugene: if a bank is not working properly with firefox their own site stats aren’t what to go by, and you could point out to them countries where 1 in 2 people use Firefox
In Poland it is 41.5% :
http://www.ranking.pl/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=22|OW
In other countries this same ranking says that it is 32.2% :
http://www.ranking.pl/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=22|FG
But no way, congratulations!
P.S.Sorry for my English.
its interesting to note that more people use firefox compared to other browsers over the weekend than during the week. i think this i still an indication that companies have taken slower to adopt firefox than have individual people.
You’re going to compete with Chrome sooner or later, and that will be an interesting battle, taking into consideration relations between Mozilla and Google;)
Congratulations to Mozilla!!!
Let’s to 40% for Firefox, 40% for Chrome, 15% for Safari and 4% to ie.
Dmitry has a point. Chrome is a more interesting competitor than IE for several reasons. Chrome and Firefox are both attractive browsers to tech savvy people. Also, Google’s use of Mozilla as a proxy against Microsoft aside, the two open source browsers are apt to start exchanging parts any day now. No doubt IE will slowly try to assimilate these innovations, but it might take them awhile.
Users given the choice will always take an up to date software over old rebadged software.
If M$ were to lose the advantage of bundling IE with the OS and large corporations started supporting Firefox, I suspect IEs lead would all but disappear.
I say 25% Firefox, 25% Chrome, 10% Opera and 40% SEAMONKEY!!! FUCK YEAH!!! SEAMONKEY KICKS ASS!!!