Firefox Web Browser Reaches 25% Market Share

December 18th, 2006 Anthony

Good news, as w3counter shows that Firefox has reached 25% market share.
Breakdown:

IE6 - 59%
Firefox 1.5 - 17%
IE7 - 6%
Firefox 2.0 - 6%
Firefox 1.0 - 2%

So combined versions of Firefox come to 25%, and combined IE6 and IE7 come to 65%. Not bad!

I find it interesting that IE6 vs IE7 has such a large difference still, given that Microsoft is pushing IE7 out to customers via Windows XP automatic updates. I would have expected an overnight explosion of adoption, something like 50% of IE users having IE7 by now. I guess not!

Wonder why that is - too many people with pirated XP copies (You have to run the ‘genuine’ tool to install IE7), or just people not updating windows?

Posted in Design Matters, Web Dev