firefox market share tops 20% this November surveyed by net application. Are these surveys are accurate.IT seems firefox is very popular but cannot gain up to 50% ;D what are your comments or opinion why FF 3.0.4 is still on 20% share only :o this is the linkhttp://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28
Cos most people go with the flow of Microsoft and what comes installed with the system.
This is not rocket science. Most folks take the easy way of what is installed. We Firefox users have to have made a decision and an effort to download, install and configure Firefox.
Most of us in this forum are geeks (like you) and so we are interested in these issues. Most folks with computers just want to do their email, shop online, share their pictures of the kids, view funny video clips on YouTube etc. Why do you think they would care about finding a safer, faster browser?
You persist in asking questions in this forum of people who are just like you. This is rather self serving - you will just get the answers of people like you.
i personally don’t like firefox - its installed on my system, but after testing it i decided to use opera again…
sometimes i also use google chrome and actually test IE8 beta…
there are more things i don’t like about firefox:
one thing is that I don’t like the design (the standard design is too simple and in my oppinion old-fashioned) 
and an other thing is that on my school laptop its very nasty because it asks me for my login-data (to the school network) every times i want to go to a site… its somehow not saving it… (this thing doesn’t happen with IE, Opera or Chrome)
i also don’t need the plugins… (i only used html-validator for testing new homepages…)
where firefox was great to use was when i simulated a mobile phone (i visited homepages with firefox masked as a nokia n95) 
it basically for sure is a nice browser but not for me… :-\
But, for the moment at least, Firefox is not losing out to either Opera or Google.
I suspect that Firefox may well lose some share to the 800 pound gorilla of Palo Alto cos they have money to throw at it. Opera will remain interesting but just a bit player. The real contest will remain IE, Firefox and Google with IE remaining dominant (at least for the foreseeable future) simply because it goes with the Microsoft operating system territory.
I’m still not sure what’sso wonderful about Google’s solution. It has nothing that Opera or Firefox can offer (except the stuff they “innoavated” by copying from others).
The only reason IE is “dominant” is because MS insisted that if they are to include their operating system (XP, Vista) in new computers, IE must be included. So right from day one with your new computer, you’re using IE and most folks aren’t even aware of FF and Opera etc. It’s only after new computer users start reading computer magazines etc. that they read about the alternatives and may try them. If IE wasn’t included, I suspect they would be getting no more than 15%.
I totally agree upon that.
Another side of that story is that 70-90% of Windows users use default settings from MS.
Not only for IE, but for the whole OS.
That explains why so many have unnecessary services running and so on…
Only a minority(of us) like to tweak. Many people will just power on their system
and go to the net…
HL
Hi hlecter,
Yes and that is a very dark side of the story, because people should not be allowed to touch Windows “out of the box”. Windows as by default is “sort of dangerous” in the hands of the non-educated user, and so is Internet Explorer in defaults settings, and so is surfing without av solution and an active firewall, and all these n00b-users make the Internet a dangerous place for those that are used to do the same, propagating and propelling malware and unwillingly partaking in being zombies in some gigantic cyber-botnet-park. And the majority of people continue these unhealthy practices until they land here and learn to act a little differently. Avast evangelists have a gigantic task to educate, but sometimes I have the far fetched feeling or hunch that there are also parties involved that rather keep the situation as it is because that is much more profitable. Yes the reality is that bleak,
polonus