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IE's market share falls below 60%, Firefox surpasses 30%

Kevin Weiner
03 July 2009 - 19:52
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With Firefox 3.5 being recently released, and hitting five million downloads in 24 hours, Firefox appears to be gaining more market share, and Internet Explorer's market share is slipping according to Favbrowser, and a graph by statcounter shown below.

Internet Explorer fell from 62.09% to 59.49%, while Firefox rose from 28.75% to 30.33%. But Firefox isn't the only browser that's gaining market share. Opera, recently released the beta version of version 10 of its browser, rose from 3.23% to 3.36%, Safari, recently released version 4 of its browser and hitting 11 million downloads in three days, rose from 2.65% to 2.93%, and Chrome rose from 2.42% to 2.82%.

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  1. zeke009 - 03 July 2009 - 20:28

    Choice is a wonderful thing... oh look, crying to the EU hasn't helped Opera too much yet.

  2. Neoauld - 03 July 2009 - 21:23

    zeke009 said,
    Choice is a wonderful thing... oh look, crying to the EU hasn't helped Opera too much yet.

    nothing but a good opera browser will
    too bad well never see that
    lololol

  3. M_Lyons10 - 04 July 2009 - 00:47

    Neoauld said,
    nothing but a good opera browser will
    too bad well never see that
    lololol

    HAHAHAHA, ZING!

    I have just about everything installed here (Except Opera - I tried it, hated it, and uninstalled it...)... My browser of choice is Firefox, but I do use Chrome a good bit too. I couldn't really get into Safari (Too much bling, too little substance, or IE 7 or 8 (Too slow... Why does it take 30 seconds to open a new / blank tab?).

  4. Gabe3 - 04 July 2009 - 01:20

    takes less then a half a second for me in IE. although IE likes to crash for me a lot, my browser of choice is FF, almost never crashes. I'm so familiar with FF its hard using something else, just slows me down.

  5. M_Lyons10 - 04 July 2009 - 02:18

    Gabe3 said,
    takes less then a half a second for me in IE. although IE likes to crash for me a lot, my browser of choice is FF, almost never crashes. I'm so familiar with FF its hard using something else, just slows me down.

    Weird. I have had IE 7 and 8 installed on 7 computers, and opening a new tab is ungodly slow on all of them. I've switched all of the office computers to Firefox as a result. I have experienced a LOT of crashes with 7, but 8 crashes a lot less I think.

    I agree on being used to Firefox. I feel the same way. When I'm in a different browser I always find myself looking for one of my add ons...

  6. Gabe3 - 04 July 2009 - 04:41

    M_Lyons10 said,
    Weird. I have had IE 7 and 8 installed on 7 computers, and opening a new tab is ungodly slow on all of them. I've switched all of the office computers to Firefox as a result. I have experienced a LOT of crashes with 7, but 8 crashes a lot less I think.

    I agree on being used to Firefox. I feel the same way. When I'm in a different browser I always find myself looking for one of my add ons...


    I'm not much of a add-on user, i've only found 2 or 3 that are useful to me. but navigating through bookmarks and tabs is what I'm use to using in FF.

  7. rm20010 - 04 July 2009 - 05:48

    Neoauld said,
    nothing but a good opera browser will
    too bad well never see that
    lololol


    It's good enough for me, so meh. Could care less about a percent increase or a 10 percent increase.

  8. Pallab - 04 July 2009 - 07:51

    zeke009 said,
    Choice is a wonderful thing... oh look, crying to the EU hasn't helped Opera too much yet.

    oh good..another crybaby who just doesnt get it!

  9. chAos972 - 04 July 2009 - 08:59

    Neoauld said,
    nothing but a good opera browser will
    too bad well never see that
    lololol


    Then it's great that there's alternatives available for you so you aren't forced to using the one. Opera still has features that have me hooked (such as mouse gestures) that just make using anything else lackluster. (The equivalent Firefox extension isn't the same)

  10. GreyWolf - 04 July 2009 - 14:47

    M_Lyons10 said,
    Weird. I have had IE 7 and 8 installed on 7 computers, and opening a new tab is ungodly slow on all of them. I've switched all of the office computers to Firefox as a result. I have experienced a LOT of crashes with 7, but 8 crashes a lot less I think.

    I agree on being used to Firefox. I feel the same way. When I'm in a different browser I always find myself looking for one of my add ons...

    The tab delay is caused by a bad addin, most often the Java SSV helper and Symantec web filter.

  11. Neoauld - 04 July 2009 - 15:15

    GreyWolfSC said,

    The tab delay is caused by a bad addin, most often the Java SSV helper and Symantec web filter.

    spybot immunization is what did it for me

  12. Omkar™ - 04 July 2009 - 15:23

    M_Lyons10 said,
    I have experienced a LOT of crashes with 7, but 8 crashes a lot less I think.

    Not exactly the criteria we look for in a, new, browser, is it?!

  13. zeke009 - 04 July 2009 - 16:02

    Pallab said,
    oh good..another crybaby who just doesnt get it!

    lol, then explain it to me. What did I miss?

  14. Mainer82 - 04 July 2009 - 17:34

    Gabe3 said,

    I'm not much of a add-on user, i've only found 2 or 3 that are useful to me. but navigating through bookmarks and tabs is what I'm use to using in FF.

    Same here. One addon if you don't already have it is Xmarks, it's been very useful for me as I can organize my bookmarks from any computer now.

  15. Shining Arcanine - 04 July 2009 - 19:49

    zeke009 said,
    Choice is a wonderful thing... oh look, crying to the EU hasn't helped Opera too much yet.

    Opera will gain marketshare when it can block advertisements.

  16. Subject Delta - 04 July 2009 - 21:11

    Shining Arcanine said,
    Opera will gain marketshare when it can block advertisements.


    Opera can block advertisments

  17. Neoauld - 05 July 2009 - 01:15

    Frank Fontaine said,
    Opera can block advertisments

    i think he meant, with an easy to install extension that works just as well(without the giant empty spaces)

  18. smooth_criminal1990 - 06 July 2009 - 12:32

    M_Lyons10 said,

    HAHAHAHA, ZING!

    I have just about everything installed here (Except Opera - I tried it, hated it, and uninstalled it...)... My browser of choice is Firefox, but I do use Chrome a good bit too. I couldn't really get into Safari (Too much bling, too little substance, or IE 7 or 8 (Too slow... Why does it take 30 seconds to open a new / blank tab?).

    hmm, I think the tab thing is to do with the spybot search and destroy immunisation, remove that and it speeds up apparently.

    I'm mainly a Firefox user cos it has soooooo many addons that I use (and cos I don't WANT to remove the immunisation from IE!!!)

    EDIT: I should really RTFPs before posting myself :P

  19. NPGMBR - 06 July 2009 - 12:52

    I read something about that problem with IE's tab issues somewhere I think it was CNet. There is a fix for it and if I remember correctly its not a problem necessarily related to IE but a plug-in or something.

    I'm not really into browsers. I use IE of course but I don't really think about the browser because it does what i want. Never felt a need to try anything else and im quite content. And after sitting at a computer all day long then having to go home to get online and spend another hour or two in class, I'm just no interested in anything that doesn't really change my experience.

    Maybe I'll try FF someday but as of now I don't have a compelling reason to do it.

  20. savedandfamous - 03 July 2009 - 20:29

    What an ugly chart.

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