Comment 1069 for bug 1

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Faldegast <email address hidden> wrote:

> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1
> Internet Explorer have dropped to below 65 % from 70% in the end of December. If this continues it means that they will pass 50% market share in less then three years.

You have to be careful with browser stats; due to the fact that each
company that produces them is taking a different sample of the
internet and extrapolating from it, you can end up with a 'blind men
and an elephant' situation (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant)

Compare other October data:

http://gs.statcounter.com/
IE ALL = 57.17%

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
IE6+7+8 = 51.22%

ALSO, 'global' data does not reflect the fact that there are already
countries (AFAIK, they're all in Europe) where not only is IE < 50%
but in fact where FF is > 50%! e.g. according to StatCounter:

Germany
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200810-200911

Finland
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-FI-monthly-200810-200911

Hungary
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-HU-monthly-200810-200911
(again though, compare to another source from Sept.
http://www.atinternet-institute.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/browser-barometer-september-2009/index-1-2-3-180.html
which shows it as less)

> So it seams that we are winning the browser wars.

That has been the trend, but note that OEMs have not helped at all;
AFAIK Windows preloads still all use IE (though there is light on that
front in Europe; see
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/technology/companies/05soft.html for
example)

What we NEED is to convince some OEMs other than Dell that they should
at least offer Ubuntu (not misc rebranded whatever distro) on their
computers and sure, make a big deal about the fact that Firefox is
preloaded as a feature.

CK