IE7 more prevalent, overall IE share of browsers is down.

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:45 PM in ,

News to make any Firefox fan sleep a little easier at night.  While Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)  is being installed more widely, its replacing installations of IE6.  That in and of itself shouldn't be that surprising.  However, the forced upgrade to IE7 hasn't eaten into the Firefox share at all.  In the US, that share is estimated at 14% by WebSideStory.

Johnston wasn't confident that Microsoft would ever be able to make inroads on Firefox's growing share. "Once someone gets used to Firefox, especially its extensions, and unless they think IE 7 or IE 8 or whatever comes in the future is so much better, they're going to stay with Firefox," says Johnston.

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Jason Lefkowitz says

I've been surprised to see IE7 top out at around 15% of IE hits on my sites. I thought we'd see IE7 take over from IE6 much more quickly after they pushed it out over Windows Update.

That means either (a) people prefer IE6, or (b) nobody uses Windows Update. Both of which I find scary :-)
Posted Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:19 PM

Oscar says

It'll realy take off once Vista is the only option that Windows folks have for their desktops or laptops.
Posted Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:43 PM

Ginger says

What is the percentage of Firefox users worldwide? It seems like I read somewhere they use it much more widely in Europe.
Posted Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:21 PM

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