Firefox taking off!

[Brian Densmore]

"OneStat.com, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based provider of Web traffic measurement services, said that according to numbers gleaned from 2 million Web surfers around the world, the Mozilla Foundation's new Firefox releases appear to be cutting into Microsoft's still commanding lead in the browser market.

"It seems that people are switching from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's new Firefox browser," Niels Brinkman, OneStat.com co-founder, said in a statement.

OneStat's statistics, based on the Web surfers' activity in 100 countries, showed that IE's market share slipped to 88.9 percent in the third week of November, down 5 percentage points from its share in May.

Mozilla-based browsers, including Firefox, rose to 7.4 percent, up 5 percentage points from May."

Mozilla based browsers with 7.4% of the browser market? Wow,
I'll bet Firefox is in M$'s scopes now. I wonder how long before
the FUD begins? I'm not sure FUD is going to help them here.
I bet they'll be "buying" up one of the third party IE
add-on/resellers to get up to speed with Firefox.
A new browser war on the horizon? Now would be the time
for Mozilla people to approach PC vendors to get Firefox installed on new PCs.



Brian Densmore