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07 Nov 2005
Newly published figures from internet analyst OneStat.com show that Mozilla's Firefox now accounts for over 11 per cent of global browser use, and that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has slipped to 85 per cent.
Support for Firefox is strongest in Canada, where usage levels are at over 16 per cent. But UK surfers are lagging behind the curve, with less than five per cent choosing the open source browser.
"The global usage share of Mozilla's browser is still growing and it seems that Netscape users and some Internet Explorer users are switching to Firefox," said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com.
"It also looks like users of Internet Explorer on Mac computers are switching to Apple's Safari because the global usage share is still growing.
"It is also interesting to see that Internet Explorer has less global usage share in the US as in the UK."
Firefox appears to be taking market share from other browsers as well. While its share is up 2.8 per cent since April 2005, Internet Explorer is down 1.18 per cent.
The figures show that Safari is the third most popular browser after Internet Explorer and Firefox with 1.75 per cent of users, followed by Opera at 0.77 per cent and Netscape at 0.26 per cent.
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Who's "facts"?
Since my previous tongue-in-cheek submission, the latest Google updates have changed those search results dramatically. The figures quoted were correct at the time of posting and were slightly up on the previous month's results of 25,746 for Firefox and 65,300 for Internet Explorer. As a comparison, Yahoo currently lists 23,600 results for "I hate Firefox" and 25,250 for "I hate Internet Explorer" and "I hate IE" combined, figures that are likely to have changed within a few days. The search string "I hate FF" is a valid term (with the quotation marks) when Firefox is used as well, though hardly infallible. My "misleading facts" are neither any more or any less accurate than those you posted yourself, merely a snapshot of Google results from one moment in time. Whether you choose to see them as facts or as fiction is your own choice, hence the reference to "Lies, damned lies and statistics".
Posted by: John Anderson 21 Dec 2005
Don't understand last post
Results in the last post are misleading. For, "i hate [browser]". the results on google are: "i hate firefox" 735 "i hate ff" is not a valid string since most results refer to final fantasy. not that it matters since it results in 1,660 results. "i hate ie" 74300 with most referring to MSIE "i hate internet explorer" 20100 with all referring to MSIE 2.47% of browser complaints come from Firefox users. obviously we have some disputing data. don't spread your misleading facts.
Posted by: John Paez 19 Dec 2005
Firefox hate soars above 50 percent.
You know what they say about "Lies, damned lies and statistics"... Try Googling "I hate Firefox" and "I hate FF" + Firefox... 34359 results. "I hate Internet Explorer" and "I hate IE"... 61200 results. As of Nov. 26th, 2005, Firefox has an 11% share of the browser market but a much larger share of published hatred than Internet Explorer, by percentage. At the current rate of increase it should be THE most hated browser within a couple of years. Nice work, Mozilla! ;)
Posted by: John Anderson 26 Nov 2005