Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Ahead of IE8 and Firefox 3.1
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversFor the past couple of years Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral, albeit slow, but inching down with every passing month, with only Firefox to blame.
In the race to produce Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.1, Microsoft and Mozilla are also going head to head in an audience-measuring contest, a constant comparison of market share that is continually giving the edge to the open source browser over its proprietary rival. At the start of December, for the first time in its history, Firefox's market share climbed over 20%. At the same time, Internet Explorer's trajectory dipped below the 70% mark.
"Reaching 20 percent worldwide market share is a significant milestone for Firefox and Mozilla," revealed Mozilla's CEO, John Lilly. "It's a huge achievement by the global Mozilla community, one that just a few years ago most would have considered impossible. The open web is more vibrant than ever, and the thousands of Mozilla contributors around the world have played a major role in making it that way."
According to statistics provided by Net Applications, at the end of October 2008, Firefox accounted for a market share of 19.97%, and managed to jump almost one percent to 20.78% in November. During the same period, Internet Explorer dropped from 71.27% to just 69.77%. At the end of November 2008, Net Applications credited IE7 with 40.61%, IE6 with 35.18%, Firefox 3.0 with 15.57%, Firefox 2.0 with 4.80%.
"NetApplications has just released their monthly report Browser Market Share, which shows Firefox hitting 20.72% of the global market in November," stated Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development. "IE is falling at a slightly faster rate than Firefox is growing. Pretty much all of the difference can be accounted for in the slow decline of the Windows desktop, which has this month fallen under the 70% mark for the first time."
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Comments(7)
adblock plus and noscript come to mind here.....that and the thousands of free add-ons,
themes, if you can think of it...someone else has already written and stuck it on the net
for you..
i'm just so darn happy with firefox! :)
'nough said
i'm using opera for years now and for the rare moments i have to use ie7, i'm always
surprised about the slow speed of ie. i can not imagine myself using this browser every
day.
hi!
have used all browsers including chrome, safari, mozilla, ie, opera, etc.
but no one is better, easy, and faster than mozilla. its great.
let's combine all of the best features from ie ff op saf and voila!!!
thank...
don't rat me out.
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By SC on 02.12.2008 - 20:12