Did Firefox Lose Market Share in July to IE Followup
As you could probably tell, I seemed a bit skeptical in this post. I decided to run some stats on LQ and compare them to the ones I did in July. It turns out that LQ has also seen a small drop in Mozilla/Firefox usage and a small increase in IE usage. I have to admit I'm quite surprised. I'm interested to do this same test again next month to see if a pattern is emerging. We all knew that the growth of Firefox had to slow down a bit at some point, but I thought that plateau would come after 10%. Let the speculation begin on why it's happening. I don't think the fact that all the new "back to school" PC's come preloaded with IE should be underestimated. Given a little time to become infested with Spyware, will the Firefox number start to rise again? Any other speculation? The numbers below are for the first two weeks of August (I've included the July numbers for comparison).
| Browser | % |
|---|---|
| Firefox/Mozilla | 57.7 -> 56.8% |
| Explorer | 27.9 -> 29.1% |
| Unknown | 5.2 -> 5.2% |
| Konqueror | 4.1 -> 3.9% |
| Opera | 3.3 ->3.2% |
| Safari | 1.2 -> 1.2% |
| Galeon | 0.3 -> 0.3% |
| Links/Lynx | 0.2 -> 0.2% |