Firefox tops 11% global market share
My favorite browser Firefox has finally reached it’s target. The original target was 10% by the end of 2005. I was suprized that some major portals such as ZD Net and News.com didn’t even bother mentioning it.
Firefox is currently standing at 11.5% global Market share, and holds 14.5% market share in US. Internet Explorer is now down to 85.5% globally and 80.7% in US.
It would be interesting to see these numbers at the end of 2006.
Firefox is an Open Source browser with superior features compare to Internet Explorer. The ones that I care about are:
1. Better compliancy with W3C standards: Meaning that websites render much better and faster in Firefox. Internet Explorer has so many CSS, and javascript bugs, if it wasn’t because of IE we could have had AJAX long time ago.
2. Better Security: yes despite some recent security reports firefox is still far more secure than Internet Explorer.
3. Ad Blocker
4. Tabbed Browsing
5. ability to add or remove extensions
News Links:
DesktopLinux.com - Firefox releases 2nd 1.5 beta, tops 11% marketshare
Information Week
ZD Net UK
SlashDot.org
Rastin