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Posted by Clare Greenway on: Monday 28 February 2005

Internet Explorer Holds its Ground

In spite of recent market gains and over 25 million downloads in the past 100 days, the Firefox browser is failing to keep up with expected growth against Microsoft's Internet Exlorer.

Market analyst, WebSideStory, reported the findings. Figures show a 34 percent increase of Firefox users at the close of 2004. This slowed to a 22 percent increase and then a more modest 15 percent increase in the five weeks leading up to February 18, 2005.

According to WebSideStory's chief executive, Jeff Lnsford, Firefox had hoped to secure a 10 percent share in the overall browser market by mid-2005. While this figure is still obtaininable, it will require Firefox to step it up a notch and increased activity from the Mozilla (download) Foundation.

WebSideStory puts Firefox usage at 5.6 percent of the browser market. Coming in at number three in the web browser stake is Apple's Safari. Microsoft still dominates them both with 89 percent of all browser users using Internet Explorer.

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naylor83

Posted on: 2005-03-01 00:38:52

WebSideStory is trying to cause a stir by claiming that adoption of Firefox is slowing down. However, this is not true - not even when looking at their own numbers. WebSideStory have now removed the most misleading numbers in their report, and replaced them with more relevant figures.

Using these (new) figures for a few calculations, it's clear that Firefox has seen the same average adoption rate of 0.021 percentage points per day since the beginning of December. Also, the decrease in adoption rate since November (when adoption averaged 0.037 percentage points per day) is only 42.5% [1-(0.021143/0.036786)=0.425] - not 56% [1-(15/34)=0.56] as the initial figures indicated.

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