Stout Performance by FF3
According to analysis conducted by us here at StatCounter, the Mozilla Firefox Guinness Book of Records attempt has been a major success in encouraging users to download Firefox 3.
Usage of Firefox 3 more than doubled between June 16th and 18th from 7.8% to 18.9%. Trend graphs are available here.
“The Firefox folks have certainly earned themselves a pint of Guinness,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “This is a major success in encouraging users to upgrade in a short period.”
We also found that the Guinness promotion seems to be having a generally positive effect on Firefox market share. The overall Firefox share of the browser market increased from 34.9% to 36% over the two day period while Internet Explorer fell slightly from 56.3% to 55.4%.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Is good to have options and any one have the right to decide what is better.
For now I still support IE as it is, in my opinion, the best browser in the market, as we can see by the values statcounter is showing.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I want to say something,people talk about the success of Firefox,just try to open some tabs around 5 or 6 and see the memory usage in the task manager,everyone would come to know about it so for me IE 7 is better.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Haha, let the troll wars begin in the comments, the two first are world-class already, and I trust the replies to be top-notch as well
June 20th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
[...] nun auch festzustehen, dass die Mehrheit ihn tatsächlich benutzt. Im Statcounter-Blog ist zu lesen, dass sich der Anteil der User, die Firefox 3 einsetzen, innerhalb von zwei Tagen von 7,8 Prozent [...]
June 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
FireFox is faster, by far. I was supporting IE7 for some time, but around two weeks ago I just had to switch. Many sites were loading slow, and many were showing that “Switch to FF couse IE7 sucks” thing.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:51 am
There were minor problems with earlier versions of Firefox,
I hope they are fixed in FF3.
IE7 is also good, but FF rocks.
Nothing beats Firefox Extensions.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:58 am
Firefox owns all browsers, period. It’s faster, more secure and more customizable than any other browser on the market, nuff said.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:12 am
Firefox is the king of the browsers……..I heard there were a lot of Firefox download parties on the social networks to help set the record.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
thank you wery much…
June 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
[...] Sicherheitslücken verliert dagegen derzeit sehr viel Marktanteile. Im Statcounter-Blog ist zu lesen, dass sich der Anteil der User, die Firefox 3 einsetzen, innerhalb von zwei Tagen verdoppelt [...]
June 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Ankur says: “just try to open some tabs around 5 or 6 and see the memory usage in the task manager”
Download Fx3 and compare
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
firefox is the best i love its speed.
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Would you choose Firefox over Safari on a MAC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuepuSokn9M
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Cool to know! Thanks.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:20 am
Rodnei U may compare between IE 7 or IE 8 beta 1 and between Firefox 3 their is still a lot of difference between memory usage or which we call memory leakage
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 am
We have dumped IE long time back now we cant even think of using it. You guys will be shocked to know even IE7.com recommends to use firefox
Check http://www.ie7.com and enjoy!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
[...] seine Sicherheitslücken verliert dagegen derzeit sehr viel Marktanteile. Im Statcounter-Blog ist zu lesen, dass sich der Anteil der User, die Firefox 3 einsetzen, innerhalb von zwei Tagen verdoppelt [...]
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Humm,, and how many of you downlaoded the NEW FF vulnerability. A new record I bet,,,,,
See here http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001458.html
I still say IE is better!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I just downloaded FF3 the other day. I guess i heard about it a little late. But I have to agree that it has some pretty sweet features that 2 didn’t have.
Love it!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
i have a little problems with it and i ve heard that it was released because a day ago was released opera and the clients were stolen:d
June 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am
what was the guiness record thing about?
June 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
very gooooooood work
thanks a lot
June 26th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
thank you
June 28th, 2008 at 4:33 am
I also certainly believe that Firefox 3 has made some mark in the global audience with this record. Cheers to the Firefox 3 team everyone who participated.
June 28th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Firefox is such an important part of most marketers business structure. I cannot imagine going back to only using Internet Explorer?
I just don’t even want to entertain the idea!
Miss Gisele B.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:23 am
thank you wery much… ff3 simply rocks….
June 30th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Are these aggregate global statistics, for example market share of browsers, browser versions, and operating systems, available anywhere in StatCounter? If not, could they be made available? Seems like it would be a useful and popular feature.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 am
Firefox is a good all round tool, but I won’t use to many of the plug-ins at one time, as I find it very quirky.
Student Education and Financing
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 am
I LOVE Firefox! Ever since FF came out… I dumped IE faster than you can say “Switch!”
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July 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Firefox is by far the best tool for my MAC…
http://johndenner.wordpress.com/eddie-van-halen-5150-style-guitar-being-donated/
July 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Long live FireFox! Although I have had a few quirks to work out between Firefox and Vista, I still love it. And how cool that StatCounter has access to so much data and can tell us stuff like that. Sweet!
July 9th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
IE7 is not compatible with a few key sites I use day to day for work. I have to use Firefox to make things work right. IE7 has been crashing on my computer for months, I’ve reinstalled several times and Firefox continues to run bug-free.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I also enjoy this Blog…..
Great tips and info always!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuepuSokn9M
July 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am
nice
i like firefox 3 it is so cool
jasmine celion
cool-hotstuff.blogspot.com
July 14th, 2008 at 5:41 am
I have both IE& and FF loaded on the ‘ol computer. I have to use them both for website testing. Personally, I prefer FF over IE because it seems to be alot less buggie and it loads waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy faster!!!
Thanks guys for supporting Fire Fox - its the better deal
July 26th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Oh, I have always loved firefox. And will always use it. Only use IE to test my pages =p. More opensource to the people!
July 31st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Hey StatCounter
As you have access to so many stats from so many sites maybe you should make a summery of it all.
You could have a list of the most popular browsers, OS, ISP etc.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
yes ,. Firefox rocks really.. with it’s army of extensions it’s superb ..
August 1st, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Long live firefox…may it continue to grow until there is no longer a single soul using internet explorer on the face of the planet. I can dream can’t I?
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 am
Hey StatCounter
As you have access to so many stats from so many sites maybe you should make a summery of it all.
You could have a list of the most popular browsers, OS, ISP etc.
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 am
Not a fan of Firefox here. I understand you gurus say it is not vulnerable and that stuff like IE but until I can look at a site and have it look the quality of IE…I don’t even want it on my computers. I have one computer with Firefox that I do a test on before launching a web site just to make sure nothing I scripted confused Firefox… Common guys they left out the header function in PHP in the last version I was using. Ridiculous!
Anything can be a success with Google backing it.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I find the new Firefox to be much better than the previous ones as well as IE. The best feature for me is the domain suggest tool based on your history.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Lookout both FF & IE…. here comes “Chrome” the new browser from Google. Aparently it’s open source, fast, & secure. I’m gonna check it out, if Chrome ends up being everything its been tooted, It’ll kill both IE and FF.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:17 am
i love firefox
September 8th, 2008 at 11:33 am
thank you for sharing
September 9th, 2008 at 8:46 am
im learning..thanks
September 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am
We love Firefox………thanks guys for sharing this information with us.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 am
firefox is the best i love it
November 4th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I surf the net using IE and Firefox - IE (20%) and Firefox (80%). Firefox is better, but I need to check my new sites using IE too.