Firefox Has 31% Market Share

by on Aug 2, 2009 | 6 comments

dr-evil Firefox is quickly gaining ground on Internet Explorer and, hopefully, will one day send IE to the dustbin of history. A milestone along the way is surpassing the 1 billion download mark.

The one billion download mark is likely rather inflated because it includes users downloading multiple copies. That number does not include updates, however.

As it sits, Internet Explorer still holds about 60% market share. Firefox comes in at 31%, and the remaining browsers split up the rest of the pie.

Interestingly, Firefox 4.0 is coming down the pike and looks oddly similar to Google Chrome.

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Doesn’t it?

Source: BBC.

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  • Brian

    Have you ever tried this tweak for Firefox? I have used it on V3.5 and slow loading web pages load much quicker now.

    http://devnulled.com/content/2004/12/how-to-make-firefox-faster/

  • David K.

    Are you sure it’s not because the markets are different? Ha ha

  • Sharron Field

    I wonder if Microsoft’s compliance with EU regulations in giving end users an initial choice of browser in Windows 7 E RTM will mean that even more people choose and download Firefox as their preferred browser in preference to IE8?

  • http://www.mithaimate.com/ sweets

    Good achieve.

  • David M

    I don’t understand why the percentage for Firefox is not higher. Is it that people don’t like changing old habits?

  • joshp1

    firefox and chrome are both opensource merging the 2 may completly take out ie

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