Can IE8 Neuter Firefox?
February 24th, 2008 Posted in Browsers, Browsers/Firefox
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.
Source: Janco Associates
February 24th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Interesting to see Safari dropping. Surprising given all the first-time mac users whom you would expect to be using their default browser.
August 30th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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.