It’s like a twin happiness to seeing news regarding the released of new version of Firefox 1.0.5 and the increase its market share to 8.71%.

Quoted:
NetApplications.com, an Aliso Viejo, California, maker of applications for monitoring and measuring Web site usage, said this week, Firefox increased its market share to 8.71%, up from 8% in May 2005, while IE’s share shrank to 86.56% from 87.23%.

According to NetApplications.com, since the beginning of 2005, Firefox has increased its market share every month between 0.5 percent and 1 percent, mostly at the expense of IE. Besides, as Firefox approaches the 10% market share milestone, it is expected to gain “significant traction” once its acceptance grows among corporations.

So, as a summary of the latest statistic from NetApplications.com, the current market share of web browsers looks like this :-

• IE : 86.56%
• Firefox : 8.71%
• Safari : 1.93%
• Netscape : 1.55%
• Opera : 0.59%

So, help spreading the more secure browser as the alternative to the inferior Internet Explorer.
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