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Originally Posted by Bifta
Correct, and Bifta isn't foolish enough to believe that a fair indication of browser share is available to view at W3. Let's think about it rationally for a minute, what sort of people visit that site? Technical people, a small cross section of the population, a small cross section that would have no problem trying out a new browser (no matter how rubbish it is). I've looked at some slightly fairer stats, on an Estate Agents site that pulls all sorts of different people and my stats differ hugely.
Apparently this is based on 3,898,985 page views, 80,788,375 hits.
Firefox has apparently got 0.4% browser share, based on fairer statistics.
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Can't argue with statistics like that ... although let's not forget we're still talking about Beta software here. Firefox doesn't launch officially until next week, and the community is planning to support that launch with a big PR push. You can't expect Firefox to truly break out of the IT geek community until it gets this wider exposure. It will be interesting to see whether the stats from that same website are any different by, say, next May.