Can IE8 Neuter Firefox?

By Mark Evans | Published: February 24, 2008

So, IE8 ready to be unleashed into private beta.

Question: will IE8 be able to fend off Firefox, which now has now has more than 15% market share?

Firefox has a few key elements going for it: momentum, a great brand and a thriving ecosystem happy to develop extensions/add-ons to make Firefox make useful. As well, the increasingly profitable Mozilla Foundation is getting more aggressive strategically – and even getting serious about taking Thunderbird along for the ride.

Should be interesting to see IE8 vs. Firefox 3.0.

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Source: Janco Associates

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2 Comments

  1. Daniel Gibbons
    Posted February 24, 2008 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

    Interesting to see Safari dropping. Surprising given all the first-time mac users whom you would expect to be using their default browser.

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  2. Birotom
    Posted August 30, 2008 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

    So far (as of yesterday) IE 8 is no threat to Firefox. I trid both of them on a quite complex AJAX app, and the results are devastatin for IE8. If you are interested in the details, see my blog.

    Reply

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