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Press
Release - October 12, 2005
   
Firefox Fever Cools - Microsoft Stops IE Market Share Erosion
Park City, UT –
Janco’s IT Productivity Center has just released its 3rd quarter Browser
Market Share White Paper. The major findings include that Firefox
maintained its number 2 browser position but has lost momentum. Netscape
version 8 flops as it continues to lose market share and dropped from 5th
place to 7th place. New in this
white paper are recommendations on which browsers to use and not use. A
summary of Janco’s browser market share data can be found on the IT
Productivity Center (ITPC) web site (http://www.itproductivity.org/browser.htm).
The
top five browser market share rankings are: 1 - Microsoft’s IE – 85.09%; 2 -
Firefox – 8.83%; 3 – Mozilla – 3.31%; 4 – AOL – 0.81%; 5 –
MSN –
0.62%. The CEO of Janco Associates, Inc., M. Victor Janulaitis said: “The
positive glow on Firefox was dulled in April with the identification of some
security gaps in Firefox. While still maintaining its number 2 position,
Firefox seems to have lost its momentum.” He added, “Netscape’s release of
version 8 has become a non-player. According to our data, Netscape continues
to lose market share.”
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Jan-05 |
Jun-05 |
Sep-05 |
|
Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Rank |
|
Internet Explorer |
1 |
84.85% |
1 |
85.07% |
1 |
85.09% |
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Firefox |
3 |
4.23% |
2 |
8.83% |
2 |
9.52% |
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Mozilla |
2 |
4.48% |
3 |
3.31% |
3 |
2.68% |
|
AOL |
5 |
2.20% |
4 |
0.81% |
4 |
1.36% |
|
MSN |
6 |
0.58% |
6 |
0.62% |
5 |
0.59% |
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Opera |
7 |
0.34% |
7 |
0.59% |
6 |
0.23% |
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Netscape |
4 |
3.03% |
5 |
0.75% |
7 |
0.15% |
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Total |
|
96.68% |
|
99.23% |
|
99.47% |
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Jun-05 |
Sep-05 |
Net Change |
|
Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
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Internet Explorer |
1 |
85.07% |
1 |
85.09% |
|
0.02% |
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FireFox |
2 |
8.83% |
2 |
9.52% |
|
0.69% |
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Mozilla |
3 |
3.31% |
3 |
2.68% |
|
-0.63% |
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AOL |
4 |
0.81% |
4 |
1.36% |
|
0.55% |
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MSN |
6 |
0.62% |
5 |
0.59% |
1 |
-0.03% |
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Opera |
7 |
0.59% |
6 |
0.23% |
-1 |
-0.36% |
|
Netscape |
5 |
0.75% |
7 |
0.15% |
-2 |
-0.60% |
|
Total |
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99.23% |
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99.47% |
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Janco’s 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
third
quarter of 2005 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
fourth
quarter of this year. |
