Comments on: Firefox Growth, Market Share Slow

By: RE Gardner

RE Gardner — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:23:04 +0000

Just a FYI, there is an update to Firefox that just came out - 1.0.1 - It does not show up in the auto update yet.

I only use IE for two sites now - WTOP traffic reports (DC - weird Active-X), and Windows update. This number has decreased, for example, when I started using Firefox, USAA (my insurance/finance company) would not recognize it and I could not log on; that is no longer a problem.

By: Daily Pundit

Daily Pundit — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:49:35 +0000

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By: Dean Esmay

Dean Esmay — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:59:07 +0000

Russ gets it right. The "rate of increase in market share" is a rather weird way to measure growth. It's not unlike the shell game some on the right and left play with the national debt or the budget deficit. Yes, yes, the debt is at "record levels" if you don't count inflation or the GDP or the size of the population or anything else that would give you a reasonable perspective on it.

By: Kappiy

Kappiy — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:42:19 +0000

Jim-

I believe that ooCalc already has upped the number of rows to 65k. If it is not in the current version, it is certainly being "advertised" as a feature of 2.0

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:23:48 +0000

I love Open Office Write - I prefer it to Word for articles and scripts actually. But the 1.1 spreadsheet is not ready for prime time. Last I checked (admittedly a year ago), the roadmap had OO Calc at 32k rows through 2.0. Is that still true? I regularly use bigger spreadsheets at work.

By: Kappiy

Kappiy — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:01:39 +0000

Firefox is a vastly superior browser than IE--the extensions enahnce its functionality leaps and bounds over IE. Also--tabbed browsing will change your life (the AdBlock feature aint shabby either)!

It will be interesting to see if Open Office has as much of a splash, comparatively, when they introduce 2.0 in a couple of months. There are still some bugs in the latest release, but as those get worked out it has the potential to rise as a formidable challenger to MS Office.

By: Fred Boness

Fred Boness — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:44:42 +0000

What Dave said. I got Firefox out of frustration with IE security issues only to find it has many fine qualities that would have justified the switch much sooner.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:04:22 +0000

I think there's another unreported factor in this story. Transitioning to Firefox is a response especially to security problems. When the next security problem crops up in Internet Explorer, more will transition to Firefox.

By: Backcountry Conservative

Backcountry Conservative — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:31:54 +0000

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By: Russell Newquist

Russell Newquist — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:31:00 +0000

Also, when you're increasing from 0% market share, by definition your growth is going to be stratospheric. Growth from 0% to 1% market share is infinite growth, but from 1% to 2% it's only 100% growth. This is going to fall off by the nature of the mathematics itself. With that said, I love Firefox and use it myself, and I think that it's got a far better chance than any other recent browser of actually eating away some of IE's market share. Indeed, it's already managed to make Microsoft wake up and notice, as evidenced by their decision to update IE after all.