Firefox Doubles Its Browser Market Share

April 26, 2005 By Ian Bell

Janco's second quarter 2005 Browser Market Share Study finds that Firefox has doubled its market share to grab more than 10% percent of the browser market.

Victor Janulaitis, the CEO of Janco said, “In less than three months Firefox has grabbed over 10% of the browser market. In addition, based on conversations with a number of industry sources andJanco’s projections, we feel that within the next quarter Firefox could have up to 25% of the browser market.”

The study also found that Netscape’s Version 8 has had very limited success. “If the trend continues Netscape will be less than a footnote as a browser,” said Janulaitis. He also added that individuals who have tried both the new Netscape and Firefox almost all chose Firefox.

Browser ranking and market share results from the Browser Market Share Study as of April 26, 2005 are:

   1. Internet Explorer - 83.07%   2. Firefox - 10.28%   3. Mozilla - 3.81%   4. Netscape - 0.92%   5. AOL - 0.85%   6. MSN - 0.67%   7. Opera - 0.41%

Survey findings and conclusions include:

— Firefox is challenging Microsoft like no other competitor has done in quite some time.

— Firefox and Mozilla have a combined market share of over 14%.

— Attacks on browsers are moving many users to use the automatic update feature to get the latest browser versions.

— A significant number of users are now looking to solutions other than Microsoft – thus Firefox looks to gain even more market share.

Showing 4 comments

fungku at 2:27pm 26th April 2005 Ya, good thing their ads are not too intrusive. I like firefox although sometimes things spin out of control and then it will eat up tons of memory.
James at 1:23pm 26th April 2005 I meant a free version without ads...
fungku at 11:38am 26th April 2005 they do have a free version of opera. I think it's all about marketing. Firefox did a huge push on marketing to get recognition. There were articles written on it, etc. Opera doesnt have that kind of attention.
James at 8:36am 26th April 2005 This is great news for FireFox. I am willing to bet that if Opera fixed their compatibility issues and offered their browser for free, they would jump up in the ranks too. But of course they would not make any money if it was free either.