Firefox Loses Browser Share?

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According to the company Net Applications, Firefox is losing market share while Apple’s Safari is gaining. Of course this is only what Net Applications can track and is contrary to what Firefox reported earlier this month.

"It appears to be a real dip," not a statistical anomaly, said Vincent Vizzaccaro, Net Applications' executive vice president of marketing and strategic relationships. "It's still bigger than November, though, as if Firefox had a little spike in December. "Firefox has had minor setbacks like this before," said Vizzaccaro.
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Wow, I could of sworn that more people uses firefox everyday. I mean most of my friends and people that visit my site starting to use firefox.
 
We shouldn't care about which browser is dominating the market. We should be more concerned about stardards being followed in all browsers.
 
Funny... over at Ars, FF was "shown" to have been gaining browser share from IE. (... And Net Applications was one of two sets of surveys that Ars used in its article.)
 
Who really cares which browser people are using? I mean seriously?
 
Ockie said:
Who really cares which browser people are using? I mean seriously?
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How about every Web Designer? I guess you missed the flak from Mac users when one of Yahoo's sites didn't support Safari yet. It was reported here.

Any CSS user will tell you that "standards-based" browsers still have differences. I can't imagine it's any easier for the AJAX folks.

This will always impact the decision of putting out a website with partial browser support now (and risk pissing off X% of users) or waiting until Y% of browsers are supported (and risk losing Z% of business to early-adopting competitors).
 
srangara said:
How about every Web Designer? I guess you missed the flak from Mac users when one of Yahoo's sites didn't support Safari yet. It was reported here.

Any CSS user will tell you that "standards-based" browsers still have differences. I can't imagine it's any easier for the AJAX folks.

This will always impact the decision of putting out a website with partial browser support now (and risk pissing off X% of users) or waiting until Y% of browsers are supported (and risk losing Z% of business to early-adopting competitors).
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Thats about the only reason to care, but the problem is most of the time it's a pissing fest on which is better... IE or FF.
 
Then fan-boys should stay away from sites like Net Applications. It's not for them.
 
I've been using Firefox on PCs with Linux and Windows as well as Macs running OS X for a few years now. However, on my Mac, Firefox tends to eat a ton of CPU cycles (~30% on a 2 GHz G5) when there are a lot of flash ads on a page (especially with many tabs/windows open). Using Safari on my Mac doesn't have nearly the footprint of Firefox (maybe 5% CPU utilization with the same pages loaded that caused ~30% under Firefox), so I've been tending to lean more toward using Safari.
For those who don't know, Safari is based on the same code as Konqueror, so it tends to benefit from advancements made to Konqueror.
I prefer using Firefox, but it isn't worth it if it makes my machine sluggish while I'm trying to do work or play games.
 
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