Firefox market share rockets

Mozilla's Firefox web browser has boosted its total global usage share to 8.45 per cent, according to figures by web analytics company Onestat.com.

Firefox's total usage share has increased by more than one per cent since November 2004, the web analytics company said. Mozilla announced last month that downloads of Firefox had hit 25 million since it was launched.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) still dominates the global browser market with a usage share of 87.28 per cent, 1.62 per cent less than at the end of November 2004, according to Onestat.com.

"It seems that global usage of Firefox is increasing and global usage of IE is decreasing. It looks like users of IE 5 are switching to Firefox instead of upgrading to IE 6.0," said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com.

The global usage share of Apple's Safari has increased from 0.91 per cent to 1.21 per cent since November 2004. Netscape (1.11 per cent) and Opera (1.09 per cent) are the fourth and fifth most used browsers.

See also:

Firefox piles the pressure on Explorer

Over 2.6 million downloads in March, and a claimed 44 million in total  14 Apr 2005

Mozilla fixes new Firefox flaw

Users urged to download patched version immediately  24 Mar 2005

Internet Explorer 7 not just for Windows XP

Microsoft lets slip a few details about upcoming browser  02 Mar 2005

Explorer douses Firefox flames

Stellar growth of open source browser begins to slow  28 Feb 2005

Firefox foils phishing flaw

Security update fixes spoofing and arbitrary code execution, says Mozilla  25 Feb 2005

Internet Explorer 7 promised for the summer

Bill Gates makes surprise announcement at RSA Conference  16 Feb 2005

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