One of the issues with FF in the workplace is its lack of central administration. With IE, I can easily lockdown users' browsers with Active Directory, but Mozilla currently doesn't afford this flexibility.

Granted, there are ways to lock down FF on specific computers, but that doesn't help much from a central administration standpoint.

Still having a hard time wondering why anyone cares about browser "marketshare" in 2008.

Some Browser and OS stats from a client's renewals site. 12 month gap showing the movement .

http://www.techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=58175

FF3 Beta 5 released.

Using as my primary browser now.

One can only imagine what FF share would be if it actually had decent online help. And a way to disable "quick find."

In response to #1:
Because everyone who is a sane web developer can't wait IE6 to drop below 5%, so that it can be thrown into the trash can where it really belongs.

I use Firefox at work for everything except accessing the corporate intraweb site, which doesn't work correctly unless I use IE. In our office (small R&D facility, mostly engineers) I'd say about 50% use Firefox for the majority of their web browsing.

As #11 points out, Firefox is the only Open Source project with serious uptake on the desktop. For the non-software staff in our office, that pattern holds.

For the software engineers, use of Open Source is (not surprisingly) quite a bit more common. Even though we're still nominally a Microsoft shop, there are a fair number of Open Source tools being used -- Subversion, Python, Cygwin, some Linux VMs running in VMware. And the one die-hard Linux guy who refuses to use his company-supplied Windows desktop for anything other than running MS Outlook to access his company e-mail (he does all of his other work on a laptop running Debian Linux).

That's 82% short.

How is this news? Isn't FF's overall "market share" much higher? If anything, businesses lag the web-using public.

"Adoption in the enterprise nearly doubled to 18% by the end of 2007, but large-scale, companywide deployments are not yet typical."

So you could have a business where an IT guy has firefox on his system and that business counts towards the 18 percent. Who is typically filling out these surveys? IT guys and computer savy people who may have firefox on their system to compliment IE. Are any of them using firefox to access internal corporate network? The statistic is meaningless. What is important is large scale deployments not where a couple computers have firefox on it. My guess is the not only are the large scale company wide deployments not typical but in fact are almost non-existent. I think firefox is great but it has a lot to do before they make heavy inroads into the corporate market.