Today we released the first ever Mozilla Quarterly Analyst Report, focusing on the State of the Internet. This is the start of something new… in addition to metrics related discussions on this blog and across the broader community, we wanted to create a somewhat standardized, ongoing report capturing the state of the internet as seen through Mozilla’s eyes. You should expect to see this report released at the end of each calendar quarter.
Why do this? Mozilla is in unique position. We’re a global community with more than 350 million people around the world using the Firefox Web browser. While we are careful to ensure the data we collect and metrics we track are fairly limited, we feel compelled to share and evangelize the little wisdom we’re able to extract from our numbers.
The structure we’ve laid out includes two general sections – (1) high-level metrics related to Firefox market share and adoption that you should expect to see with each report, and (2) interesting facts and insights that will be rotated in each report.
Some key insights from this report include:
- Looking across several sources of market share data, Firefox’s worldwide share appears close to 30%.
- Usage/Adoption of Firefox this quarter grew most dramatically in Russia.
- Where do people get the earliest start to their day? Hawaii, Wyoming, and Maine. And the latest start? New York.
- People in South America and Antarctica are passionate about personalizing their browser.
- In one usage study, we found one person having more than 600 tabs open at one time. (This last insight comes from Test Pilot, Mozilla Labs’ platform for opt-in participation in studies and experiments.)
We are seeking input and feedback, so if you have any thoughts, please let us know.
A Mozilla report on the Web presented in PDF makes it more difficult to use and re-use.
This is great stuff! I particularly like that worldwide market share map
I still prefer chrome to firefox
It’s so great to see Firefox getting stronger and stronger in Europe! Almost 40% that’s so good! At my company we use and sell computers with Firefox already installed because it’s the best browser around in our opinion! Come on Mozilla!
PDF problem?
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.mozilla.org%2Fimages%2Fe%2Fed%2FAnalyst_report_Q1_2010.pdf&pli=1
It looks like Antarctica is leading the way!
600 tabs, wow. I have a browser window open with 44 tabs right now, and I thought that was ridiculous.
Excellent, thank you.
And we can be thankful that New York gets started late. If they didn’t, more people would have been in the World Trade Center that fateful morning…
Hey this awesome. (insert sarcasm—>) Do you suppose that Microsoft and Google will follow your lead?
Thanks Mozilla!
Of course you all know that OpenOffice.org can open PDF’s right? But, I get the point so I converted (saved) the PDF to (as an) ODT.
http://themozillian.com//downloads/moz-misc/Analyst_report_Q1_2010.odt
And you can view open documents in Firefox (OOo plugin).
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/09/openofficeorg-documents-within-firefox/
“I still prefer chrome to firefox”
Um, then why are you spending your time loading, reading, and commenting on Firefox content? Trolling?
This report is awesome. Informative, entertaining, and exciting.
Nice work!
I hate PDF files. Actually, I wish Firefox had its own PDF renderer so I didn’t have to depend on the buggy Adobe plug in, which frequently crashes Firefox. In the meantime, I will use the Google Docs renderer, as ArpitNext recommended.
wahh, its amazing and excellent, thank you.
Great data and an entertaining reading. Looking for similar insights coming periodically. Here’s a Spanish translation I did for Mozilla Perú: http://mozilla.pe/reporte-de-analisis-2010-1-de-mozilla-%E2%80%93-estado-de-internet
FireFox is a great browser and I was using it for many years (starting from FF v1.0 till 3.5.6). I am very happy to see its growing market share and congratulate the mozilla team for creating such an outstanding product.
Recently I observed FF performing slow and becoming heavy memory consumer as its features list is growing. I could see multiple requests raised on this issue (on bugzilla) however I felt it is not really attracting required attention from FF dev team. Though I am a huge fan of FF, it is not really stopping me to shift to Chrome when it is faster and better. People may start thinking on this line and may start considering other faster browser in the market. Before this perception spread like wild fire, Mozilla can tackle this issue and spare some effort to retain existing users along with influencing new audience.
I did not realize that Firefox had such a high market share in Europe.. almost forty percent.
NO matter where you are, atleast one person will use the “Heavy Memory Usage” fallacy regardless of countless benchmarks and real use reports proving it wrong.
Lets go over it again:
Memory leaks died with Firefox 2. Memory usage got infinitely better in Firefox 3. There has been little to no change in overall memory usage since then.
If you do have memory usage issues, check your extensions first.
congrats to firefox team and community
we’re the best and a nightly build tester i know as a matter of fact the firefox 4.0 w’ll blow chrome out of the water .
Antarctica is overgreat!! lol
I have had viruses open multiple tabs on my browser, I think that may as well explain the 600 tabs user.
Look on this 2010 Internet Browser Software Review Product Comparisons
http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/
1. FireFox
2. Chrome
3. Internet Explorer
4. Opera
I completely agree with johnjbarton:
A Mozilla report on the Web presented in PDF makes it more difficult to use and re-use.
Why do we have the best Web Browser on earth if you end up publishing a report in a proprietary format?
Where is the HTML version of the document?
thanks!
Nice and concise report!
Thanks Mozilla!
Nice, europe still going strong, let’s hope the US catches up
I usually have 4 Firefox windows with 10 or more tabs open each. I enjoy a lot that after an exit, they reopen all of them.
А Opera10.51 все равно лучше и быстрее
Who the hell lives in antartica?
Interesting report. I am curious about how do they obtain that information. Is firefox sending that info, do people voluntarily send it?
regards.
-Andrés
Good to see this openess.
Any reklation to Google’s problems ?
@Simón: Actually, PDF is now an open standard (since the updated version 1.7 from 2008) although this PDF file contains a 1.5 versioning…
@Andrés Proaño: Which information? If you read well, the information obtained about the person having 600 tabs open was indeed voluntarily sent in.
If you’re talking about the add-ons statistics from Antarctica, I suppose those were retrieved from the internet addresses of the people who provided these add-ons.
A very interesting report. Here, in Europe, people often speak about Mozilla and of course Firefox when the subject is Internet browsing.
Internet Explorer is no longer a sole leader (if it ever was in terms of licensing and technology).
Many scientifics lives on Antarctica
Firefox has been my main browser for many years but, as of late it has been crashing and closing. this has been happening since before they would save more than one open page. If I knew how to save my history and bookmarks I would do so and then uninstall and reinstall. I have not tried chrome but use opera when gets to frustrating. I have many times have had well over 100 tabs open. The new problem is that Vista will say Firefox is already open so it will not open another one until I close that one. I go into the processes and everywhere but can find no Firefox open so to cure this I must do a restart. Any suggestions?
Great the PDF is produced with OSI standard presentation software.
Check the PDF’s document properties….
“PDF Producer: Microsoft (R) Office PowerPoint (R) 2007
I think that 70% of Microsoft’s IE share is mainly because – as Chief Lizard Wrangler once well put – “The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.” Imagine what Firefox’s rating would be if they could distinguish!
That being said, I’m a happy to be a Firefox-educated knowledgable Firefox user!
)
I’m guessing one with 600 tabs open only did it to add some variety to the usage study. not because they actually needed 600 tabs open. I would love to know which tabs were open.
If you ever want to study a person with 600 tabs open, contact me. I regularly run between 150 & 300 tabs open with peaks of much higher.
Why don’t you fix tab opening issues, popup window issues, model dialog issues and a host of other broken things in your damn browser, instead of spending google’s money spying on your users, and trying to think of ways of making money out of your browser.
“In one usage study, we found one person having more than 600 tabs open at one time.”
I don’t remember opting in to any usage statistics…
I’ve gotten it down to about 360 right now, but I’ve been over 1k tabs before. I had to write a special script to prevent firefox from crashing on load (FF tends to crash on load when you go over 500 or so tabs).
Re: Hawaii
Having previously worked for a company that does business with another in Hawaii, I’ll speculate that the reason you see that effect is they simply start their work day earlier then the rest of us. In order to work or interface with us, they need to do so in the first half of the day, just as we needed to wait until X hour to avoid ringing them at 4AM. Over the last 60-70 yrs., they probably developed a business culture that reinforces early morning work.
600? Is that all?
$ grep “\<embed url" .gnome2/epiphany/session_crashed.xml |wc -l
782
Gosh what a waste of resources, having so many tabs open at once. It’s mind boggling. One wonders what’s wrong with having a bunch of well organized bookmarks, instead of burdening Firefox, and the computer, with all those open tabs.
Very good topic, and helpful report.Thank you Ken.
Yes, I think so. the topic is very interesting
It is quite interesting and very useful. Thanks.