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Firefox Snags over 12% of the Browser Market Share say Janco Associates White Paper
(openPR) - Janco Associates, Inc. has just released its 1st quarter 2006 Browser Market Share White Paper. The major findings include that Mozzila Firefox has maintained its number 2 browser position and in the past 12 months has added 7.81% to its market share.
The white paper also reports that Netscape version 8 has not taken off as well as expected and has only increased its market share by .61% in the same twelve month period. Currently over 98.55% of the browser activity is limited to four browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozzila Firefox, Netscape, and Mozilla.
New in this white paper are recommendations on which browsers to use and why. A summary of Janco's browser market share data can be found on the web at both www.e-janco.com/browser.htm and the IT Productivity Center (ITPC) web site ( http://www.itproductivity.org/browser.htm).
The top four browser market share rankings are: 1 - Microsoft's IE - 82.83%; 2 - Firefox - 12.61%; 3 - Netscape - 2.33%; and 4 - Mozilla - 0.78%. The CEO of Janco Associates, Inc., M. Victor Janulaitis said: "Firefox took off quickly in early 2005 but slowed with the identification of a number of security issues. In the last three quarters Firefox has begun to regain momentum." He added, "Netscape's release of version 8 seems to have landed like a lead balloon. The marketing of that product has been ineffective. In our opinion it is not clear that Netscape will be a player in the browser market next year at this time."
Janco has collected consistent data on browser activity since September 1997. The data is collected from commercial sits which a focus on business to business activity. Janco has over 350,000 data points for each month of the study as it continues to expand it client base. Janco anticipates that it will issue an update to it market share data at the end of the second quarter of this year.
As with all products in the Janco product line, the full study is distributed electronically and can be purchased for $249.00 at http://www.e-janco.com/browser.htm.
Source: OpenPR
All Systems
- If you install Firefox on a multi-user system in an area in which there is restricted access privileges, you must run Firefox as a user with access to that location upon installation so that all initial startup files are generated. If this is not done, when a user without write access to the install location attempts to start Firefox, they will not have sufficient privileges to allow Firefox to generate the initial startup files it needs to.
- When upgrading, all your Extensions and Themes will be disabled. This is not an issue, but it may appear to be one (hence its listing here). For rationale, see "Extension and Themes" above.
- Software Update does not request proxy authentication and will fail if you are behind a proxy server. ( bug ) The workaround is to visit a web page in the browser and log in to the proxy server and then perform Software Update.
- Software Update will not work if Firefox is installed to a location that you do not have write access to, since Software Update needs to replace or create files in this location.
- The Help documentation refers to "Single Window Mode" options regarding "Force links opened in new windows to open in [New Tab, Same Tab]." This function was disabled at the last minute due to problems we were experiencing with it, so ignore this section of Help. To re-enable the Single Window Mode options (at your own risk - there may be crashes), use the Configuration Console (accessed by entering "about:config" in the Location bar and pressing Enter) to set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true .
Windows
- When installing as a restricted access user on a shared machine into a location that you can write to, there may still be negative side effects (default browser/other keys not being set correctly). The Mozzila browser should still function however. When installing as a restricted access user do not attempt to install over an installation in a restricted-access/shared location as this may destroy that installation.
- Firefox may hang when closing after viewing a PDF file in some older versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug in. If you experience this make sure you are using the newest version of the plug in.
- On Windows 98 systems, the Application icon may appear as a Windows icon.
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