And the trend continues…
Last month FireFox and other Moz browsers were at 25%…
Now? 34%!!!
Geeze Louise… Nothing like giving a guy a heart attack. IE is now down below 60% (from 90% 6 months ago, and 75% 2 months ago).
I honestly don’t know how to react to this. Given this trend, we could easily see FireFox surpass IE in Ensight usage sometime next Spring. And I honestly don’t know what I’ll do in that case. Redesign Ensight to take advantage of cool FireFox and Moz-only stuff, leaving IE users to “settle”?
Who knows. The last time this happened was in 94-95 when I was working on Microsoft’s and IBM’s sites. And it was great, because the stuff I was doing was damned near impossible in Netscape, but was easy in IE thanks to it’s standards compliance.
But, I still feel like I have no frame of reference. It will have been a decade since I’ve done this and, even though I write a fair amount of pro-FireFox press, I still am not prepared for it - never mind for how I should react.
Gah. Oh, and congrats FireFox 
#1 by Clete R. Blackwell 2 - December 16th, 2004 at 08:42
Wow, that’s great.
Most of the tech people I know use FireFox (me too), while a good amount of Joes use it as well.
I wish I could say that for the number of Linux (me ;)) users.
It is also biased a bit because your website is relating to computers and people who are more than “Joe”s. Compare it to steampowered.com or microsoft.com even ;).
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#2 by Vinnie Garcia - December 16th, 2004 at 08:54
Just make sure your site works in at least those browsers, if not others as well. If you want to add the bleeding-edge CSS stuff then feel free to but it probably won’t add that much to the site :).
#3 by Oliver Thylmann - December 16th, 2004 at 09:49
I’m at 25% at the moment. But I think that’s a bloggers phenomenon
#4 by Andy Palmer - December 16th, 2004 at 12:56
Im so glad. I’m the most anti m$ person there ever is. Viva le fox ! long live the fox ! get your fox today
got fox ?
#5 by Aaron - December 16th, 2004 at 14:23
Hmmmmm…. nothing like getting in on an obvious trend too late. Evne when you should have seen it coming a few years ago.
#6 by Jeramey Jannene - December 16th, 2004 at 17:40
I’m seeing similar results on my blog. My numbers had held steady at 20 percent for Firefox market share since the name change from Firebird, but now they’re cruising up near 40 percent.
#7 by Paul Larson - December 17th, 2004 at 13:32
Well, I just switched from Safari because I couldn’t handle the ‘beach ball bug’ any longer.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the trend continued on the Mac side, where we aren’t even starting from a crap browser.
#8 by Clete R. Blackwell 2 - December 17th, 2004 at 15:04
Could you elaborate on what the ‘beach ball bug’ is?
#9 by Paul Larson - December 17th, 2004 at 17:22
Clete:
click here
[ note from Jeremy: Paul, had to shorten the link, it was messing with the page ]
#10 by Clete R. Blackwell 2 - December 18th, 2004 at 09:07
Thanks :).
#11 by Sean Spurr - December 18th, 2004 at 16:12
My popular games site is getting about 20% moz browsers, and games site is basically the most ‘average joe’ type site out there, so firefox is certainly catching on. Good luck to it and it’s cool tabbed browsing!
#12 by Paul - December 19th, 2004 at 19:51
I think your blog is read by a large number of techy types (who generally catch onto good technology quickly). The techy types reccomending nice software to average joes is a gradual process - I think Firefox will settle around 40% share in the next 6 months.