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Today was the first day Firefox 3, and I downloaded to find out what all the fuss is about.  This new release is of particular interest to me because I have been monitoring the browser market share for a while now, and I want to get a feeling on whether this release will likely increase the market share for Firefox versus IE.

Below are my reactions after initial usage:

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Here is the browser market share for May 2008, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 59.90%
Firefox: 36.16%
Opera: 2.13%
Safari: 1.14%
Mozilla: 0.52%

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Here is the browser market share for April 2008, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 59.86%
Firefox: 36.21%
Opera: 2.05%
Safari: 1.19%
Mozilla: 0.52%

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Here is the browser market share for March 2008, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 60.89%
Firefox: 35.32%
Opera: 2.03%
Safari: 1.04%
Mozilla: 0.52%

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Here is the browser market share for February 2008, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 63.26%
Firefox: 33.26%
Opera: 1.88%
Safari: 0.88%
Mozilla: 0.52%

In February, IE lost over a full percentage, while Firefox gained nearly one full percent. Microsoft has just released IE 8 Beta. Currently it’s not clear when IE 8 will come out of beta. But based on some early reports, it looks like there are quite a few things Microsoft will need to fix before this browser goes GA.

Here is the browser market share for January 2008, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 63.26%
Firefox: 33.26%
Opera: 1.88%
Safari: 0.88%
Mozilla: 0.52%

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Here is the browser market share for December 2007, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 62.98%
Firefox: 33.25%
Opera: 2.12%
Safari: 0.83%
Mozilla: 0.58%

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Here is the browser market share for November 2007, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 62.51%
Firefox: 33.87%
Opera: 2.02%
Safari: 0.80%
Mozilla: 0.57%

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