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Firefox market share slips for the first time

By Derek Sooman

On August 15, 2005, 6:09 PM

Unfortunately, it looks like Firefox has lost ground to Internet Explorer. For the first time since Firefox was released, IE has regained some of the market share, growing to 87.2 percent from 86.6 percent. Firefox went from 8.7 percent to 8.1 percent. These are the results as according to NetApplications, who compile browser usage data from the more than 40,000 sites.

The loss of market share for Firefox is poorly timed for the Mozilla Foundation. On Aug. 3, Mozilla announced it would be launching a subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation, aimed at leveraging the economic value of Firefox. With slipping market presence, the corporation could find itself scrambling to make up lost ground in its first initiatives.

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  1. I expect that Internet Explorer will gain some more ground when IE7 is released. Even though Mozilla and Opera have taken some ground from Microsoft, it is clear that IE is still the most dominant. Some users that switched from IE to Firefox because of security reasons are now seeing that Firefox also has security issues that need to be taken care of.
  2. Now that I've completely switched from Firefox to Opera, I find it a real pity that Opera did not identify as itself from the very begining, making their stats completely unreliable.
  3. [b]Originally posted by Julio:[/b][quote]I find it a real pity that Opera did not identify as itself from the very begining, making their stats completely unreliable.[/quote]Thank websites "optimized" for certain browsers for that.

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