No! Firefox lost market share in July to Internet Explorer

News Source: http://www.computerworld.com/developmen ... 14,00.html

AUGUST 12, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer halted the steady market share advance of The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser in July, a Web site monitoring company announced today.
Last month, Internet Explorer, by far the most used browser, regained lost ground and pushed back the upstart Firefox for the first time since Version 1.0 of the open-source browser debuted late last year, according to NetApplications.com, an Aliso Viejo, Calif., maker of applications for monitoring and measuring Web site usage.

Firefox's share shrunk to 8.07% from 8.71% in June, while Internet Explorer grew its market slice to 87.2% in July from 86.56% last month.

Between January and June, Firefox had posted monthly market share gains of between 0.5% and 1% at the expense of Internet Explorer, according to NetApplications.com, which compiles its browser usage data from more than 40,000 Web sites monitored by its HitsLink.com service.

NetApplications.com has said in the past that reaching a 10% market share would be a milestone for Firefox that could help it win acceptance in the corporate market.

Apple Computer Inc.'s Safari ranked third and grew its share slightly to 2.13% from 1.93%, while America Online Inc.'s Netscape, which once ruled this market, slid a bit to 1.5% from 1.55%. Opera Software ASA's Opera came in fifth with a 0.49% market share.

No, please! We've not yet got a much better IE7.

Neowind discussion: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s ... 58031&st=0

一家M＄御用的网站，能说明什么问题？

那里确实一堆M$ funboys可信度较差

Quake III source code GPL'ed within a week 的新闻倒是很令人兴奋

NetApplications.com的统计数据并不能像W3School那样可靠

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

2005   IE 6   IE 5   Ffox   Moz   NN 7   O 8   O 7
August 68.1% 5.4% 19.8% 2.5% 0.5% 0.8% 0.3%
July 67.9% 5.9% 19.8% 2.6% 0.5% 0.8% 0.4%
June 65.0% 6.8% 20.7% 2.9% 0.6% 0.7% 0.5%

能在Windows下用Fx的人有不少，但是要彻底放弃IE很难，都要归功于Only IE的网站，如果IE不采用故意扭曲W3C公开公用标准的策略，IE的地位很难守住。垄断是M$最拿手的手段。

fiag：那里确实一堆M$ funboys可信度较差

Quake III source code GPL'ed within a week 的新闻倒是很令人兴奋

NetApplications.com的统计数据并不能像W3School那样可靠

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp



能在Windows下用Fx的人有不少，但是要彻底放弃IE很难，都要归功于Only IE的网站，如果IE不采用故意扭曲W3C公开公用标准的策略，IE的地位很难守住。垄断是M$最拿手的手段。回到原帖

huh，neowin 是知名的 FF fanboy 集中营。

w3school 的 statistics 也显示 FF 从五月份开始下滑情况实在不乐观，希望不会影响 IE 7 的进度。

NetApplications 的数据还是比较可信的。

w3school 的统计针对特殊人群，没什么普遍意义，再高都没用。

yes, it dropped a little bit at w3schools.com
well, two points:
1. wait for FX 1.5
2. wait for IE7 which will not run on win2k and 98

I believe Fx 1.5 will push fx a little bit to around 12%, and not sure what IE 7 will do, all depends on IE's performance. Up to now, I didnt see promising improvment of ie7, especially when its running on win XP, really not that fancy.

从上面提供的 Neowin discussion 看来，IE funs比较热情，而Fx funs比较冷静，而声称用Opera的也有

nighttalker：yes, it dropped a little bit at w3schools.com
well, two points:
1. wait for FX 1.5
2. wait for IE7 which will not run on win2k and 98

I believe Fx 1.5 will push fx a little bit to around 12%, and not sure what IE 7 will do, all depends on IE's performance. Up to now, I didnt see promising improvment of ie7, especially when its running on win XP, really not that fancy.回到原帖

同意，等待中观察

Firefox官方版这二个月以来的确没什么大的改进。
看看1.5的表现怎么样了，Deer Park到目前为止和1.0相比改动的确相当大。

nighttalker：yes, it dropped a little bit at w3schools.com
well, two points:
1. wait for FX 1.5
2. wait for IE7 which will not run on win2k and 98回到原帖

Do you mean that existing FF users are switching back to IE6 just to wait for FF1.5 or IE7? That doesn't sound very reasonable. Unless those switched back were experiencing significant problem, they could simply keep using FF and waiting for the new releases.

I believe Fx 1.5 will push fx a little bit to around 12%, and not sure what IE 7 will do, all depends on IE's performance. Up to now, I didnt see promising improvment of ie7, especially when its running on win XP, really not that fancy.

I don't have your crystal ball but I do wish you're correct. No pressure from FF means no improvement to IE. How much IE7 would improve is mostly dependent on how far FF would go.

abc@home：
I don't have your crystal ball but I do wish you're correct. No pressure from FF means no improvement to IE. How much IE7 would improve is mostly dependent on how far FF would go.回到原帖

well, I just mean I will wait and see, i didnt require any other people do anything i would like them to do.
I dont care how much ie7 will improve, pressure is not from a product, pressure need to be put by people who want ie to improve, if only saying something like "i want ie to improve but i dont want to do anything about it", then thats basically saying nothing. and since M$ is not thinking their users, i dont see why user should support it.
I used gecko when it has 0.2% marketshare, and i used opera when it has 1.2% marketshare, for me, as long as my work can be done, there is no reason to go to ie.

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well, I just mean I will wait and see, i didnt require any other people do anything i would like them to do.
I dont care how much ie7 will improve, pressure is not from a product, pressure need to be put by people who want ie to improve, if only saying something like "i want ie to improve but i dont want to do anything about it", then thats basically saying nothing. and since M$ is not thinking their users, i dont see why user should support it.
I used gecko when it has 0.2% marketshare, and i used opera when it has 1.2% marketshare, for me, as long as my work can be done, there is no reason to go to ie.

Hmm, sorry I don't know what you're talking about, at least not sure how it relates to the previous posts. :shrug: