Report: Novelty of Firefox wearing off

A new report by Janco Associates noted that Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has lost more than 12 percent of its market share since February 2007, courtesy of competing browsers like Firefox and Chrome. Fortunately for Microsoft, interest in these competing offerings appears to have dipped with the recent release of IE 8.

The report from Janco Associates, reported in Network World, elaborated, "The acceptance of Firefox has stalled as the novelty and uniqueness of its features has worn off and has been duplicated by Microsoft's IE. Firefox is no long unique as both IE and Google's offerings provide most of the same features." In fact, the research firm said the seemingly stalled interest is "a major defeat" for Google.

Personally, while I agree that the features in Firefox are no longer unique, I think it's still far too early to dismiss Chrome. Indeed, it was only recently that Google released the latest version of the browser with support for plug-ins. What do you think? Do you think IE will still be dominant in a couple of years?

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Network World 

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