Firefox: The Alternative History
“Over the last year Firefox has taken the web by storm, stealing
a significant slice of the market-share pie from Microsoft Internet
Explorer (IE), and reaching more than 10 percent market share in
some areas.“Web analytics firm OneStat.com reports Firefox quadrupling its
market share between May 2004 and April 2005, while IE’s share
dropped by more than 7 percentage points over the same period. Data
from WebSideStory shows a more moderate change, with Firefox
doubling its user base in the US from June 2004 to April 2005,
while the proportion of IE users fell by more than 6 percentage
points…”
Firefox: Doing It for Love
“Although Firefox has undoubtedly been successful among
consumers, we rarely hear of companies doing wide-scale migrations
from IE. How do you think you’re doing in enterprises, and what are
you doing to change that?
If you look at all of statistics they average out to us being about
10 percent of the Web. There are estimated to be about 1 billion
Web users, which means there are about 100 million Firefox users
out there. It has only been downloaded about 65 million times, so
the other users are people who got it some other way. The most
likely place they are likely to have got it from is corporate
deployments…”