Mozilla's Firefox climbed above 20 percent market share for two weeks last month, but ended October just under the milestone, a web metrics has said.During two separate weeks last month, Firefox exceeded 20 percent share, said Net Applications. For the week ending October 5, the open-source browser averaged exactly 20 percent, while for the week ending October 26, Firefox accounted for 20.06 percent of the browsers used to connect to the thousands of sites Net Applications monitors for clients.
For the month as a whole, however, Firefox's share averaged a close-but-no-cigar 19.97 percent, a jump of nearly half a percentage point over September. That month, Firefox lost ground because of the introduction by Google of its own browser, Chrome. Firefox has now regained what share it lost, and then some.
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Oops, I mean, so what?!!
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me personally i been using Firefox pretty much exclusively since a little prior to v1.0 and i dont plan on leaving Firefox anytime soon, maybe ever.
Firefox's success has little to do with luck. They produced a superior product that would have succeeded in almost any situation. It's a shame they didn't get to where they are before IE barfed all over the web. We might have widely adopted real standards on web sites instead of this mess of IE work-arounds now.
yeah, I'm a Firefox fan.
funny , the first thing i do after installing FF is to change the main search page from
google FF (even before using it in the first place ) to google / anything else
And yeah the Firefox Google Search page.
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