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From http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php, 87% of users are on Firefox 3.6 or newer, 95% 3.5 or newer and 99% on FF

• tnorthcutt 16y ago
  From http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php, 87% of users are on Firefox 3.6 or newer, 95% 3.5 or newer and 99% on FF3 or newer. As fragmentation goes, that's not half bad. For reference (according to that page), here are the numbers for each browser & version listed (as a percentage of that browser's share), along with the stable release date (from Wikipedia) for that version: IE8: 65.3% - 3/19/09 IE7: 24.9% - 10/18/06 IE6: 9.8% - 8/27/01 FF4: 2.3% - x/x/11 FF3.6: 85.3% - 1/21/10 FF3.5: 8.2% - 6/30/09 FF3: 4.2% - 6/17/08 Safari 5: 84.2% - 6/17/10 Safari 4: 15.8% - 6/8/09 Chrome 8: 100.0% - 12/2/10
  • estel 16y ago
    There are some numbers < 0.7% of the market that are not explicitly included on that page. Particularly Firefox 2, which still has about 0.25% of the overall market (0.8% of Firefox), and some older versions of Chrome.
• necolas 16y ago
  I don't see where I said Firefox's existing fragmentation was bad. I responded to the claim that "Almost all users of Firefox and Chrome are using the most up-to-date versions of those browsers". The stats you posted show that this is not the case for Firefox. I don't think 87% can pass for "almost all users". Firefox 3.6 has been out over one year and, according to those stats, there are still ~13% of users who are using earlier versions. If Firefox 4-7 are released in 2011, without automatic updates, it would stand to reason that fragmentation could increase.