Firefox market share by version

As of November 2007

Market adoption

Mozilla Firefox's marketshare has grown for each growth period since inception, mostly at the expense of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has seen a steady decline of its usage share since Firefox's release. According to Dutch web analytics firm OneStat, by June 2007, Firefox was the second-most widely used browser, with 12.72% of global usage share.[54] By September 2007, according to data made available by U.S. firm NetApplications, Firefox's market share had grown to 14.88% globally.

Downloads have continued at an increasing rate since Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004, and as of September 7, 2007 Firefox has been downloaded over 400 million times. This number does not include downloads using software updates or from third-party websites. They do not represent a user count, as one download may be installed on many machines, one person may download the software multiple times or the software may be obtained from a third-party. According to Mozilla employee Asa Dotzler, Firefox had about 110 million users as of August 2007.

Firefox 3 Beta 1

Ready for Testing

The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso. The precursory releases are codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk builds. "Gran Paradiso", like other Firefox development names, is an actual place; in this case the highest mountain group in the Graian Alps.

The development team has asked users to submit feature requests that they wish to be included in Firefox 3.

On November 19th, 2007, Firefox 3 Beta 1 was released. With a second beta planned for December 2007 and at least three total beta releases planned, it is estimated that Firefox 3 will be released in early 2008.

One of the big changes in Firefox 3 is the implementation of Gecko 1.9, an updated layout engine. The new version fixes many bugs and implements new web APIs. In particular, it will make Firefox 3 the first official release of a Mozilla browser to pass the Acid2 test, a standards-compliance test for web-page rendering.

For more information about the developments and new features of Firefox 3.0, please visit Firefox 3.0's official site at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3, and mizilla's blog at http://blog.mozilla.com.

Source: http://www.wikipedia.com

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