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Press
Release - January
24, 2006
   
Firefox
Snags Over 12% of the Browser Market
Park City, UT
– Janco Associates, Inc. has just released its 1st quarter 2006 Browser
Market Share White Paper. The major findings include that 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, 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.”
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Trends in Browser
Market Share January 2005 versus January 2006
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Jan-05 |
Jan-06 |
Net Change |
|
Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
|
Internet Explorer |
1 |
86.56% |
1 |
82.83% |
|
-3.73% |
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Firefox |
2 |
4.80% |
2 |
12.61% |
|
7.81% |
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Netscape |
5 |
1.71% |
3 |
2.33% |
2 |
0.61% |
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Mozilla |
3 |
4.26% |
4 |
0.78% |
-1 |
-3.48% |
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AOL |
4 |
2.20% |
n/m |
n/m |
n/m |
n/m |
|
MSN |
6 |
1.71% |
n/m |
n/m |
n/m |
n/m |
|
Opera |
7 |
1.53% |
n/m |
n/m |
n/m |
n/m |
|
|
|
96.68% |
|
98.55% |
|
|
| |
Jan-05 |
Jun-05 |
Sep-05 |
|
Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Rank |
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Internet Explorer |
1 |
86.56% |
1 |
85.07% |
1 |
85.37% |
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Firefox |
3 |
4.80% |
2 |
8.83% |
2 |
9.50% |
|
Mozilla |
2 |
4.26% |
3 |
3.31% |
3 |
2.22% |
|
AOL |
5 |
2.20% |
4 |
0.81% |
4 |
1.05% |
|
MSN |
6 |
1.71% |
6 |
0.62% |
5 |
0.59% |
|
Opera |
7 |
1.53% |
7 |
0.59% |
6 |
0.23% |
|
Netscape |
4 |
1.71% |
5 |
0.75% |
7 |
0.68% |
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Total |
|
96.68% |
|
99.23% |
|
98.96% |
| |
Jun-05 |
Sep-05 |
Net Change |
|
Browser |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
Rank |
Percent |
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Internet Explorer |
1 |
85.07% |
1 |
85.37% |
|
-0.30% |
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FireFox |
2 |
8.83% |
2 |
9.50% |
|
0.67% |
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Mozilla |
3 |
3.31% |
3 |
2.22% |
|
-1.09% |
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AOL |
4 |
0.81% |
4 |
1.05% |
|
0.24% |
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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 |
0.68% |
-2 |
-0.07% |
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Total |
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99.23% |
|
98.96% |
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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.
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