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November 25, 2004

Firefox eats Internet Explorer

Internet analysts OneStat report that Firefox 1.0 - released on November 9th this year - has eaten significantly into the browser market.

According to its own figures, Internet Explorer users now represent less than 90% of the browser market, with Firefox, Opera, and Safari chewing up the other 10+%, with Mozilla Firefox as the clear majority of the smaller browser users.

According to the OneStat figures, this is the current make-up of the browser market:

1 - Microsoft IE 6.0: 80.95%
2 - Microsoft IE 5.0: 4.18%
3 - Microsoft IE 5.5: 3.66%
4 - Mozilla Firefox 0.1: 2.79%
5 - Mozilla 1.x: 2.77%
6 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0: 1.79%
7 - Opera 7.x: 1.29%

The figures were compiled from 2 million unique users across 100 countries.

Net analyst WebSideStory had already reported a loss in market share of IE to just over 92% in October, and the Opera browser is about to see release of its new 7.6 version.

Posted by brian_turner at November 25, 2004 02:42 PM

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