Firefox Passes 20% Market Share

I know there are a bunch of us Firefox fans here at Slaw, so I thought I’d pass along the fact that our favourite browser went over 20% market share point this past month.

Given that Firefox is not the default install for any of the major operating systems, and that users must adopt because of personal choice, hitting the 20% mark can’t be considered lightly.

Most less-savvy computer users will tend to keep the default program installed, IE for Microsoft, or Safari for Mac. And for those of us in the legal industry, with our obsession of all things application driven & Microsoft, we continue to stick to our Internet Explorer. Especially within the hyper-controlled networked environments of most larger firms.

So the fact that FireFox has made such inroads? To me, it’s outstanding. I’m also encouraged with the numbers published by Marshall Kirkpatrick at RWW, that 55% of his readers use FireFox, compared to just 27% for IE.

Perhaps there’s hope for us yet… :)