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Firefox grabs huge market share
Posted on: 2008-08-01 08:23:18 The success of Firefox in unsettling the browser champion Internet Explorer continues. Since Firefox 3 was launched six weeks ago, NetApplications ongoing survey report suggests a big boost for the Mozilla crew. As TGDaily points out, you have to be careful with the numbers but there is no doubt Firefox continues to bite out a hefty share of the browser market with even more gains on the horizon with the upcoming Firefox 3.1 update. According to the most recent data made available by the market research firm today, the Internet Explorer stands at 69.88% today, while Firefox 2 and 3 account for a combined market share of 20.68% (Firefox 2: 13.75%, Firefox 3: 6.92%.) Since the launch of Firefox 3 on June 17, IE’s share was as high as 74.30% and played at least 12 time with numbers below the 71% mark, while today’s estimate is a new low for the browser in NetApplications’ chart. Since the day of the introduction of Firefox 3, Firefox was able to add 2.85 percentage points to its market share, while IE lost 4.20 points in the same time frame. Source |