Google’s Chrome gained browser market share in January at the expense of both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and IE’s biggest rival, Mozilla’s Firefox, according to data published by netmarketshare.Google Chrome got a share of 5.2% by the end of January. This is around 0.6% increase from last month. Both IE and Firefox Loast its share.
IE fell to 62.18 percent from 62.69 in December and Firefox fell from 24.61 to 24.41. Chrome moved from 4.64 percent to 5.20. Notably, Firefox has fallen for two months straight, a fact that hasn’t occurred in years.
Mozilla has announced that the popular browser Firefox, currently in version 3.5, has surpassed 1 billion lifetime downloads, a nice milestone for the open source software.
The original Firefox was released in 2004. and now it has the market share of 20-30 % of all browsers. The leading one is the inetenet explorer which comes bundled with all micorsoft operating systems. But After firefox is launched the market share for IE always been decreasing. And now it has a market share of 60%. The new and emerging browsers like Google Chrome Apple Safari etc holds a market share of 2-5 % of all.
Just last year, Mozilla set the Guinness world record for most new downloads in a 24 hour period when Firefox 3.0 was downloaded 8 million times in its first day.
The billion download figure, does, by Mozilla’s account, include all types of downloads of the software, including manual updates. It also includes users who download multiple copies, normally to place on multiple computers within a same household
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You can check the milestone celebration site here: Onebillionplusyou
In an effort to settle a long standing antitrust case brought by the European Commission over the bundling of Windows OS’ with Internet Explorer, Microsoft has promised to give Windows 7 buyers their choice of rival web browsers when the OS ships in October.
The OS will be pre-loaded with multiple browsers, and would-be buyers can choose from a “ballot” which browser they want. As always, users can choose one and then download another, or a few others and use whichever they want whenever they want.
The other browsers were not disclosed but the obvious choices would be Firefox, Safari, Opera and the newer Chrome.
EC officials are expected to review the proposal, after denying past Microsoft proposals.
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