Firefox Use
For the first month since browser statistics tracking began, the internet browser Mozilla Firefox (often much favoured for its tabbed browsing, add-ons, security and stability) claimed over a 20% market share for net browsers at the end of 2008.
Mozilla remains the second most popular internet browser behind Internet Explorer, the current market leader by a long way with a 69.77% worldwide share. Apple’s Safari captures 7.13% of the market while other browsers Google Chrome, Opera and Netscape each have less than 1% shares.
Mozilla is toting this as a milestone for them as competitors for the big boys Microsoft. “It’s a huge achievement, one a few years ago most would have considered impossible” said Mozilla CEO John Lilly. “The open web is more vibrant than ever, and the thousands of Mozilla contributors around the world have played a major role in making it that way”.
