An Incredibly Shrinking Firefox Faces Endangered Species Status
Mozilla’s Firefox is in danger of making the endangered species list for browsers.
Just two weeks after Mozilla’s top Firefox executive said that rumors of its demise were “dead wrong,” the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Applications’ tracking, ending February with 11.6%.
That was Firefox’s lowest share since July 2006, when the browser had been in the market for less than two years.
Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004, at a time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) had a stranglehold on the browser space, having driven Netscape — Firefox’s forerunner — out of the market. Mozilla has been credited with restarting browser development, which had been moribund under IE.
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