Firefox 3 hits 4 percent market share...in just one week
Opera has been striving to break 1 percent of the browser market for years. Firefox 3 did four times that amount in just one week, according to Net Applications.
This not to criticize Opera but rather to laud Firefox 3. If you haven't downloaded it and tried it out, do so. It's lightning fast and stocked with a plethora of add-ons (many of which have, in fact, been updated to work on Firefox 3, and not merely Firefox 2).
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. 



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Is it ironic that I favour Linux but contend that the user is never stupid?
- by Seaspray0 June 27, 2008 10:58 AM PDT
- I'm not surprised at the market share growing to 3% in a week. Is this because people are upgrading their firefox? Probably! What the Matt Asay could have done was combine all versions of firefox into one market share indicator and report that figure as well. That would take into account the upgrading from version 2 to version 3 and also indicate what the overall firefox usage is and how it's changing. But it may be too soon to do even that. There are those who will download it simply because it's new to try it out, but may never use it again and that needs to be factored into the overall picture requiring some investigative reporting. Matt Asay, in your next article on this subject, can you give use more facts than a single "jumps 3% in a week"? Yes, Opera would be jelous, but I don't "see the picture" in your article.
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