Firefox may never top 25 per cent of the global web browser market, if new statistics are indicative of longer term trends.
Firefox has been on a decline over the last three months, while Google Chrome continues to grow in terms of overall market share, being the only browser to show a positive growth last month.
Europe gets browser choice
The latest data from web analytics firm Net Applications shows that between January and February this year, Microsoft's Internet Explorer dropped 0.60 percentage points and Firefox slipped 0.18 percentage points, while Chrome increased by 0.41 percentage points to 5.61 percent of the market.
It is the first time that Firefox's share of the browser market has fallen three months in a row. However, the trend could well be reversed, and it should be pointed out that the cumulative drop over the last three months in Firefox's market share is still slightly under a full percentage point.
Microsoft has been forced to roll out the browser ballot in the EU, this month, so it will be interesting to see how browser use in Europe changes over the coming months and years, as those users who were perhaps previously unaware of even having a choice in the matter are now presented with one.
Via Ars Technica
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bradavon
March 2nd 2010
2. p.s - You have to wonder, given how old Opera is, why hasn't it ever managed to increase more than a few percent? I put this down to it's steeper (than most) learning curve.
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bradavon
March 2nd 2010
1. Mozilla really need to:
1. Update the UI. It looks very out of date compared to IE and Chrome.
2. Speed up application launch. It takes way too long.
3. Decrease memory usage. It's still too high.
If they can do this it will still feel fresh and new. The UI makes Firefox look old, even though technically it's lights ahead of the competition.
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