Internet Explorer Falls Below 50% of Worldwide Market for First Time

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A new survey from StatCounter shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has fallen below 50% of the worldwide market for the first time. The survey shows that Microsoft IE fell to 49.87% in September, followed by Firefox with 31.5%. Google's Chrome continues to increase market share at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this year. The rise of Google Chrome in North America … [Read more...]

More than Half of Computer Users Now Run Firefox

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InfoWorld recently reported that statistics from the exo.performance.network (a source of data on Microsoft Windows marketshare trends) indicate that over half of computer users (50.6%) are now using the Firefox browser. Despite this, Internet Explorer is still widely used, with 84% of users turning to it “regularly.” These numbers indicate that a large number of people use more than one browser. This is hardly surprising, given the … [Read more...]

Firefox 3.0 Released

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The latest version of the Firefox Internet browser was recently released with over 8 million downloads achieved in one day. This release is significant due to Firefox’s continued increase in market share. According to Net Applications, Firefox had a 5.5% increase in browser share in the last year, paralleling a 6% drop in IE use and leaving Firefox poised to hit 20% of the browser market. With 1 out of 5 browser hits being from Firefox, we … [Read more...]