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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Considering Microsoft has a natural advantage of having it default on Windows (the most common desktop/laptop operating system out there) and Firefox has around 25% of the marketshare I'd say that it's exceeded. Especially since its next nearest commercial competitor Opera is at a distant 2%. That's not even factoring in extensions that can extend the browser with useful features (one of my favorite ones is Zotero, comes in handy with writing papers).
Not to be picky, but Opera has 3% overall market share (2% for the desktop version and 1% for the mobile version). Of course, it depends on how it's counted, but generally browser statistics aren't divided into "desktop" and "mobile".

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/i...t-share-recor/