>>Not necessarily. First, most of the people who had Firefox crash actually know how to write on the Web, and know the name of their browser ;). That by itself makes it somewhat overreported, and IE massively underreported ("my computer/windows/browser crashed, whom do I call?" doesn't translate into a page automatically, does it?).
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>Your post got me wondering about browser market shares. Here is what I found:
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>http://www.e-janco.com/browser.htm

Interesting... with all of the intellectual laziness, Windowses being everywhere and every one of them saddled with IE and, ahem, sponsored links... and it's still down to 2/3 of the market.

And we should note that Mozilla, Firefox, Safari and possibly Netscape share the same engine, so their combined share is actually quite a lot.

>The chart at the bottom about market share by Windows version is also interesting, although initially hard to understand due to the wacky vertical scale. The bottom line is Vista is only at 9.1%. Good! And they say the market is deaf, dumb, and blind....

And the graph is shown at an angle, so you can't really see whether XP just kept the level or even grew after the initial slump.