Monday, August 15, 2005

“Firefox Share Slipped in July for the First Time” - Slashdot

This article on Slashdot on Mozilla Firefox’s market share falling has really made me sad. It was only last month that they were reporting that its market share was growing month on month. I can only think of three possible explanations, the first is the most obvious, that the browser market for tech savvy users has been saturated. Or, that a lot of these tech savvy users are trying out the beta version of Internet Explorer 7 which as we all know contains legendry tabbed browsing (could this be their solution to bringing back users won over by Firefox?). Or it is of course possible that with growing sales of new Windows PCs the market is being diluted with ‘run of the mill’ uneducated browser users!

Let’s just hope this doesn’t turn into a lasting trend….