Firefox Users Jump Almost 50% Within One Year
Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday January 9, 2007 | 498 views
At the beginning of the year, Firefox was used by 9.6% of all Internet users. By the end of 2006, Firefox was used by 14% of Internet users, which is a 50% increase in one year. Despite releasing a new version of Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft took a hit in the browser market this past year. Internet Explorer marketshare dropped from 85.1% to 79.6%.
Apple Computer Inc.’s Safari browser jumped from 3.1% to 4.2%. Opera Web browser grew from 0.6% to 0.9%. Lastly, AOL LLC’s Netscape dropped from 1.24% to 0.9%.
In October, Firefox Version 2.0 was released and since then Firefox users have been continuously growing. I believe that part of Firefox’s growth is also responsible for Internet Explorer’s application slower load time. I noticed that Internet Explorer 7.0 was exceptionally slower than Firefox. However, the new build of Internet Explorer definetely has catered to users that prefer tabbed browsing. For PC/Mac users that have 2.0 GHz+ processors, I believe that the application load time difference between IE and Firefox may not be as noticeable.
[Source: Computerworld]
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