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FWIW, Here's a graph of usage on Mibbit.com for a year to Jan: http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png As you can see, Firefox w
by axod 17y ago
FWIW, Here's a graph of usage on Mibbit.com for a year to Jan:
http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png
As you can see, Firefox was pretty flat, and Chrome ate into IE.
Obviously the caveat is that this is for a specific webapp, but I think it mirrors what is happening.
Chrome isn't going after the same crowd as Firefox really. Chrome is going after the masses. Firefox has always been slightly more techy extension installing people.
- JulianMorrison 17y agoInteresting pattern there. IE 6 and 7 are collapsing as IE8 grows. I'd interpret that as: Windows users are having to switch anyway - which opens them up to the option of switching away from IE entirely.
- inerte 17y agoOr have it open for them by the European Comission.
- icey 17y agoI think there's another force at play - everyone knows who Google is, so there is an additional illusion of safety by going with Chrome. Outside of the tech world, not a lot of people know or care about the Mozilla Foundation; there's no implicit guarantee of quality.