Firefox Nears 30% of Worldwide Market Share
Mozilla this week released its first ever quarterly analyst report and according to Mozilla, Firefox is accounting for nearly 40 percent of the browser market share in Europe and nearly 30 percent worldwide.
Mozilla's numbers are a combination of market share numbers from StatCounter, Quantcast, Net Applications, and Gemius. For each continent, the company calculated an average of the figures reported by these sources and used this figure as the percentage. Mozilla says the number of Firefox users noted in parentheses for each continent is an estimate based on its own metrics.
Market share aside, Mozilla also provided some interesting data about its users in the United States. By looking at the distribution of daily Firefox “update” pings from users, the company took a week’s worth of data and broke it down by hour and then by state to see which states are more likely to start up Firefox at any given time. From the looks of things, people in New York appear least likely to start up their browser during the 6 a.m., 7 a.m., and 8 a.m. hours. People in Hawaii appear to be most likely to start using their browser during the 6 a.m., 7 a.m., and 8 a.m. hours.
If you're looking for an East Coast vs. West Coast comparison, it looks a little something like this.
The study contains a bunch of other interesting bits and pieces, like how many tabs the average user has open (average of 2 and 3 but one user had 600 open at once) and which country in the world is more into add-ons and personalizing their browsers.
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Firefox is all that I use. Once you get accustomed to it, you see that it really is "speedier" than IE. I also get fewer web "errors" when using Firefox. There are two or three websites that literally just don't work with IE, but which work fine with Firefox.
I use 3 chrome, IE, and firefox. they all have ups ands downs
Good god, a max of over 615 tabs open? How can anyone work with that many tabs open?
600 tabs? And I thought I had a lot of tabs open. I'm probably in the 100-120 at my worst.
Good god, a max of over 615 tabs open? How can anyone work with that many tabs open?
If that person is like me he has more than one browser window. With a wide screen monitor I can comfortably fit 30 tabs. Four windows like that and you have 100+.
I just switched back in Ubuntu. I switched to Chrome on my Laptop and my MiniMac then started noticing advertisements targeting my local area. This tells me Chrome was pinpointing my location (IP Address) then running local advertisements in my browser. Too much snooping for me so I dumped Chrome and went back to Firefox and Safari.
firefox 3.7 alpha 4 rocks your socks with direct2d and direct write acceleration activated, flash videos, google maps and games like runescape have never been so fluently smooth
Good god, a max of over 615 tabs open? How can anyone work with that many tabs open?
I could see it happening in some research jobs, especially with multiple monitors and windows open.
Just bought a new Laptop with Windows7 installed, I'm in Europe and I was expecting a Ballot Screen for the Browser, but no, it had IE8 already installed. Naughty naughty MS, anyway I soon downloaded Firefox and SRWare Iron, and then removed the IE8 links from the Desktop and menu. I couldn't cope without a decent Adblocker.
If more users were browser-savvy, Firefox would have IE's market share.
Firefox should work some deal with the < 1000 researches stationed in Antarctica. They could get 100% of that continent.
I use 3 chrome, IE, and firefox. they all have ups ands downs
Same here. Some websites still don't like Chrome. Some don't display properly on Firefox but do on IE8.
I've used firefox for a long time now and think its great. With the addons function it gives users complete control of which components of a webpage you want to display. I allways run AdBlock Plus and scriptblocker only allowing scripts ect to run on webpages I trust. Makes my web experience alot faster and stops most of the annoying pointless advertising and scripts infringing on my privacy. The only niggle I have with firefox is, why it seems to utilise so much memory! 120mb is alot compared to most other web browsers.
i just switched from firefox to chrome when i upgraded to win 7 x64. chrome just seems to run faster on my system then firefox did. i have not used ie since 2004
Opera...
I'm just wandering, what do you people do that you need more then 10 tabs open? For me mostly 2 is for searches and the rest news articles.
Good god, a max of over 615 tabs open? How can anyone work with that many tabs open?
my pc would freeze at 10 tabs
i got 100 tabs open permanently. I'm leaving open everything interesting which does not deserve a bookmark ( would be too much of a hassle) of course this consumes memory.... MUCH memory. To help me have an overview I use tab sidebar. It works for me.
Zotero is the main reason I NEED firefox. However, I could easily use another browser for browsing but I don't because firefox is my favourite.
i got 100 tabs open permanently. I'm leaving open everything interesting which does not deserve a bookmark ( would be too much of a hassle) of course this consumes memory.... MUCH memory. To help me have an overview I use tab sidebar. It works for me.
Me too. Interesting articles that I want to read and evaluate later if I want to bookmark or not, left from one session to the other.
But I only manage to have around 100 tabs open, and I suspect it's because of flash. If I have too many pages with flash open, it crashes.
One thing I like about Opera is that it has a more advanced feature in this regard: it allows you to save browsing sessions. So the next time you load the browser and you just want to do some fast stuff, you don't have to wait for all you 100+ tabs to load. You just don't load the saved session. When you're ready to go through it all, then you can load up the session. And you can save multiple sessions. I suspect it's stored much like your bookmarks list. I wish Firefox had this sort of functionality. I shouldn't be too hard to implement. In fact I suspect it's an easy thing to do.
I only have that many tabs open if I'm looking at porn. Open all the images in a new tab
I use Firefox. But it wouldnt matter if it was IE or Chrome, as long as I can bring Adblock and noscript with me, any browser will do.
All hail open source!
600 tabs? I have 4 tabs open permanently, a vbulletin website, yahoo mail, youtube and facebook. After a day or two of these sites and some other random sites, FireFox 3.6.2 gets to be about 900 megs to 1 gig of memory and becomes laggy. Youtube vids and scrolling any sort of text is jerky. I have to restart it on a daily basis to keep the memory down and avoid lag. How anyone could open 600 tabs is beyond me.
My addons are NoScript, Weatherbug, TabMixPlus and QuickRestart (because they removed the old restart option).
Even with these problems I prefer FF over IE.
Hmmmm.... I just might give FireFox a try to see what its like.
Me too. Interesting articles that I want to read and evaluate later if I want to bookmark or not, left from one session to the other.But I only manage to have around 100 tabs open, and I suspect it's because of flash. If I have too many pages with flash open, it crashes.One thing I like about Opera is that it has a more advanced feature in this regard: it allows you to save browsing sessions. So the next time you load the browser and you just want to do some fast stuff, you don't have to wait for all you 100+ tabs to load. You just don't load the saved session. When you're ready to go through it all, then you can load up the session. And you can save multiple sessions. I suspect it's stored much like your bookmarks list. I wish Firefox had this sort of functionality. I shouldn't be too hard to implement. In fact I suspect it's an easy thing to do.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7661
It seems that Steve Jobs' vision of browser hasn't come to pass.
What I meant to write was:
"It seems that Steve Jobs' vision of browser market shares hasn't come to pass."
"Chrome kills privacy! I will never use it! It sends stats to Google"
...And I'm supposed to use Fauxfire to save my privacy?
>_