Hi Ashley,

Your figures are pretty accurate - they will vary from country to country however and user base to user base.

Firefox users tend to be a little more technically aware than the average user – I’m not sure why, perhaps its because they appreciate the advantages it has over other browsers.

The figures I see coming through are typically 9% but increasing slowly after taking a dip last year when the figure was around 10%.

Whilst we’re on the subject, I’d like to provide Ian Hayward with the credit he deserves – it was Ian and his colleagues that worked around the clock so Mozilla could release 1.5 on 29th November 2005! I would also like to take this opportunity to kindly ask him to revert back to Segala’s extension ;)

Paul
Segala

On 17:49:45 16 December 2005 Ashley wrote:

What kinds of figures are other sites seeing for Firefox usage?

Charles Upsdell's Browser News estimates that around 10% of users have Gecko-based browsers (principally Firefox).

These Adtech figures show Firefox penetration at over 12% up from 8% in March this year (2005). 

On this site (E-consultancy.com) we've seen the percentage of our users with Firefox go from around 5% at the beginning of the year to just over 12% now. 

However, we've also seen the penetration rate plateau. It's been around 12% for the last 4 months and hasn't really changed in that time. Most other commentators reckon it's plateaued too. 

Our site is likely to have a disproportionately large number of Firefox users, so I'd imagine the % for a standard consumer site in the UK must be around 5%-8% at the moment?

Ashley Friedlein
CEO, E-consultancy.com 

At Scottish Enterprise Firefox is hovering around the 10% mark - well up on last year. However , as we get a lot of traffic from businesses and educational establishments ( and given most have an IT lockdown policy on software installs) I wouldn't expect this figure to rise much. At home I wouldn't use anything else but Firefox.

David Shaw
managing editor
Scottish Enterprise.com
 

On 09:57:30 19 December 2005 AndrewAllfrey wrote:

Hi there,

Unfortuntaely it looks like the new Internet Explorer Version 7 is going to be pretty damn good so unless Microsoft messes up in a big way I can't see Firefox advancing much further. Opera is perhaps one to look out for now.... as it seems to have got rid of its advertising and sponsorship within it's free version.

I have to say that I use Firefox primarily because of it's great add-ons, which makes site optimisation and analysis a whole lot quicker.

Andrew Allfrey
www.e-prominence.co.uk

On 18:25:15 16 December 2005 PaulWalsh wrote:

Hi Ashley,

Your figures are pretty accurate - they will vary from country to country however and user base to user base.

Firefox users tend to be a little more technically aware than the average user – I’m not sure why, perhaps its because they appreciate the advantages it has over other browsers.

The figures I see coming through are typically 9% but increasing slowly after taking a dip last year when the figure was around 10%.

Whilst we’re on the subject, I’d like to provide Ian Hayward with the credit he deserves – it was Ian and his colleagues that worked around the clock so Mozilla could release 1.5 on 29th November 2005! I would also like to take this opportunity to kindly ask him to revert back to Segala’s extension ;)

Paul
Segala

On 17:49:45 16 December 2005 Ashley wrote:

What kinds of figures are other sites seeing for Firefox usage?

Charles Upsdell's Browser News estimates that around 10% of users have Gecko-based browsers (principally Firefox).

These Adtech figures show Firefox penetration at over 12% up from 8% in March this year (2005). 

On this site (E-consultancy.com) we've seen the percentage of our users with Firefox go from around 5% at the beginning of the year to just over 12% now. 

However, we've also seen the penetration rate plateau. It's been around 12% for the last 4 months and hasn't really changed in that time. Most other commentators reckon it's plateaued too. 

Our site is likely to have a disproportionately large number of Firefox users, so I'd imagine the % for a standard consumer site in the UK must be around 5%-8% at the moment?

Ashley Friedlein
CEO, E-consultancy.com