Currently Firefox web browser is the No.2 with nearly 18% in market share terms. Microsoft Internet Explorer is undoubtedly at this moment the winner in this battle with a 75% of the market, not because Microsoft's browser is better but because it is integrated within Windows, where Microsoft is the leader with a 95% of the Operating system market share. However during the last yers Firefox is collecting more supporters:
Looking at the "browser trends" graphic above from Market Share , since 2006 Microsoft's browser has lost around 7 points from nearly 82% to 75%, while Mozilla browser has increased its market share from 10% to nearly 20%. In 2006, Mozilla obtained revenues of $66 Millions, most from Goggle inc.
Yesterday was the big day for the official delivery of Mozilla Firefox web browser release 3.0 . There was even a campaign named "Download day", in order to "set a new Guinness World record for most downloads in 24 hours". The goal: Deliver 5 millions copies of the browser.
I was one of them :-),in fact i am already writing this post using Firefox 3.0 , this is what i found interesting within the new release:
1 - First thing i noticed was the performance improvements in order to load pages.
2 - The "Awesome" bar which suggests sites that you have visited before. These suggestions are made based on your bookmarks and history, order by frequency and shown in a rich text format.
3 - New features against malware and phishing. Even when you download a file, Firefox runs an anti-virus for security checking purposes.
4 - Download manager improvements, now Firefox lets you resume your downloads.
5 - One click bookmarking.
6 - Bookmarks can be indexed by tags.
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