{"id":119,"date":"2006-04-06T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/04\/firefox-hits-10-share-real-influence-is-much-greater.html"},"modified":"2006-04-06T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T11:57:00","slug":"firefox-hits-10-share-real-influence-is-much-greater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/firefox-hits-10-share-real-influence-is-much-greater\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox hits 10% share; real influence is much greater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cw360.com\/Articles\/2006\/04\/05\/215224\/Firefoxreachesoneinten.htm\">Firefox market share passed 10%<\/a>. That doesn&#8217;t seem like much, but it&#8217;s a near doubling in the last 18 months. Some weird variation of Moore&#8217;s Law here? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The question is when Firefox becomes a problem for MS. I think it already is. The issue isn&#8217;t total share but who&#8217;s got da buzz. The Firefox users I know are computing enthusiasts who&#8217;ve taken the time and trouble to download, install and learn how to use a new browser when IE was sitting right their on their desktop. Firefox&#8217;s barrier to entry is really quite high, which makes the 10% penetration all the more notable. I&#8217;d also presume that those 10% are the kind of demographic Microsoft would really like to have.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, since the &#8220;stable&#8221; 1.5 release of Firefox came out, I&#8217;ve experienced more freezes, crashes and weird behavior in Firefox than in Internet Explorer. Maybe success = feature creep = bloatware. It happened with IE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox market share passed 10%. That doesn&#8217;t seem like much, but it&#8217;s a near doubling in the last 18 months. Some weird variation of Moore&#8217;s Law here? \ud83d\ude42 The question is when Firefox becomes a problem for MS. I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/firefox-hits-10-share-real-influence-is-much-greater\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}