Firefox claims its first market share crown

[Conrad Knauer]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> The New Year party is still raging at Mozilla as Firefox has become the top
> browser in Europe for the first time. Meanwhile, Microsoft is left nursing
> its hangover as Internet Explorer has suffered its biggest market share loss
> in two years; perhaps it can blame Google for spiking the punch, as Chrome
> has made significant gains largely at the expense of IE.
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/t/browsers/firefox-claims-its-first-market-share-crown-559

StatCounter is reporting the same thing from their data:
http://gs.statcounter.com/press/firefox-overtakes-internet-explorer-in-europe-in-browser-wars
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-weekly-201001-201053

But it is interesting to note that if you look at the SC data for
browser version in Europe:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-eu-monthly-200807-201012
During the majority of 2009 and 2010, the largest individual browser
versions were from Firefox.

Also, AT Internet (formerly XiTiMonitor) was saying in October that IE
barely clinging to a majority:
http://en.atinternet.com/Resources/Surveys/Browser-Barometer/Browser-barometer-October-2010/index-1-2-3-214.aspx

CK

P.S. Yay! :)