Firefox 4 downloaded over 100 million times

In just a month, the Firefox 4 distribution was downloaded more than 100 million times, as the browser developers reported at the end of last week. On Sunday evening the number of downloads was 103 million. In general, this is an excellent indicator, but all the same, the Mozilla browser cannot get an additional share in the browser market. Before the advent of such a competitor as Google Chrome, the popularity of Firefox grew every month, but now the market share of Firefox does not increase and does not decrease. True, the popularity of Firefox 4 is growing, for example, as of April 24, the share of the new version increased from 7.3% (beginning of the month) to 8%, but this does not change the total share of Firefox in the browser market - approximately 30%.

Now the most popular browser versions are Internet Explorer 8, from 29.99%, then comes Firefox 3.6 from 24.43%, then Google Chrome 10 from 15.35%. By the way, slowly but surely, the popularity of the new version of Internet Explorer 9 is growing, its share has grown to 3% - the slow growth in popularity of this browser is most likely due to limitations in the Windows version where this browser can work. It is not installed in the Windows XP environment, the OS, which is still very popular.
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But Firefox 4 works on Linux and Mac OS, which, of course, increases the potential audience of the browser. Let me remind you that Firefox 4 was released on March 22, 2011 (in fact, the final release could be downloaded the day before, but officially, Firefox 4 was released on March 22). In general, the version is really quite successful, although it was not without some problems.



Statistics on browsers, except Mozilla, is provided by StatCounter, with regard to data from Net Applications , here the statistics are slightly different. But Net Applications has data for Opera, Safari and other browsers.

Via computerworld