Part IV: Fox Fire Slows?

An update on yesterday's coverage.

According to mozillazine, February 2005 United States browser usage figures show Mozilla Firefox's growth is slowing.

WebSideStory CEO Lunsford says that: "Firefox's market share grew just 15 percent in the five weeks leading up to Feb. 18, 2005, the latest benchmark available. In the previous six weeks before that, the browser grew at 22 percent clip. These figures compare with a 34 percent increase between Nov. 5 and Dec. 3, which coincides with the release of Firefox Version 1.0 on Nov. 9."

As Mozillazine posters have observed, this slowdown is not really problematic yet -- unless it leads to a stall.

Bottom line on Firefox's ultimate success: The jury is still out.