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Press
Release - April 26, 2005
   
Firefox Doubles Its Browser Market
Share – Netscape Flounders
The IT Productivity Center (www.itproductivity.org)
released Janco’s April Browser Market Share Study. The IT
Productivity Center also has its Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Kit and IT
Service Management Template featured on this standard setting portal.
Janco’s second quarter 2005 Browser Market Share
Study finds that Firefox has doubled its market share. Victor Janulaitis,
the CEO of Janco said, “In less than three months Firefox has grabbed over
10% of the browser market. In addition, based on conversations with a
number of industry sources and Janco’s projections, we feel that within the
next quarter Firefox could have up to 25% of the browser market.”
The study also found that Netscape’s Version 8
has had very limited success. “If the trend continues Netscape will be less
than a footnote as a browser”, said Janulaitis. He also added that
individuals who have tried both the new Netscape and Firefox almost all
chose Firefox.
Browser ranking and market share results from
the Browser Market Share Study as of April 26, 2005 are:
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Apr-05 |
Jan-05 |
Net
Change |
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Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
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Internet Explorer |
1 |
83.07% |
1 |
84.85% |
|
-1.78% |
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Firefox |
2 |
10.28% |
3 |
4.23% |
1 |
6.05% |
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Mozilla |
3 |
3.81% |
2 |
4.48% |
-1 |
-0.66% |
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Netscape |
4 |
0.92% |
4 |
3.03% |
|
-2.11% |
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AOL |
5 |
0.85% |
5 |
2.20% |
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-1.35% |
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MSN |
6 |
0.67% |
6 |
0.58% |
|
0.09% |
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Opera |
7 |
0.41% |
7 |
0.34% |
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0.07% |
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Total |
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99.61% |
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99.37% |
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0.08% |
Survey findings and conclusions include:
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Firefox is challenging Microsoft like no
other competitor has done in quite some time.
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Firefox and Mozilla have a combined market
share of over 14%.
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Attacks on browsers are moving many users to
use the automatic update feature to get the latest browser versions.
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A significant number of users are now
looking to solutions other than Microsoft – thus Firefox looks to gain
even more market share.
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