Firefox 3 overtakes IE7 in Europe
By Tarmo Virki, Reuters,
Mozilla's Firefox 3 share of the browser market has overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 in Europe for the first time in years, according to StatCounter.
Mozilla's Firefox 3 had 35.05 per cent of the European web browser market last week, followed by Internet Explorer 7 with 34.54 per cent.
"The move is partly explained by a small switch from Internet Explorer 7 usage to Internet Explorer 8, but also by growing market share overall by Firefox 3," Aodhan Cullen, the chief executive of StatCounter, said in a statement. IE8 launched earlier this month.
"The data shows that Firefox is closing the gap and is now just 10 per cent behind all Internet Explorer versions in Europe," Cullen said.
In February, Internet Explorer 7 had a global market share of 41 per cent, followed by Firefox 3 with 24 per cent, according to StatCounter.
Click here to read our review of Internet Explore 8, and here to see which of the four major browsers is best.
You may also like...
Sponsored Links
advertisement
You may also like...
Latest Networking Analysis & Insight
Welcome to the stay-at-home Olympics
Inside the Enterprise: The Government has warned of disruption, and the Civil Service is practising working from home. Could IT yet save businesses from chaos on an Olympian scale?
- Q&A: Cisco on servers, storage and strategy
- It's not about the browser, stupid!
- The Great British network squeeze
- New year: new suppliers
- Top 10 tech winners and losers of 2011
- 2011: The year in news
- UK rural broadband: too little, and too late
- HP PCs back on the menu with Dellish plans
- Top 10 social networking tips for enterprise - part one
Latest Networking Reviews
Swyx SwyxExpress X20 review
Rating: 
- Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Premium 15
- ForeScout Technologies CounterACT 6.3.4
- ThinPrint Printer Dashboard review: First Look
- TITUS Aware for Microsoft Outlook review
- Windows Phone 7 Mango review: First Look
- Dartware InterMapper review
- Kemp Technologies LoadMaster 3600 review
- Sangfor WANACC M5500 review
- Office 365 review: First look
advertisement
Most popular
- Ubuntu vs. Windows 7 on the business desktop
- York researchers heat storage to speed up data
- BlackBerry Bold 9790 review
- OneNote hits Google?s Android
- O2 trials Olympic-scale remote working
- Will someone rid me of these troublesome Macs?
- Lenovo beats expectations again
- Who to trust after the VeriSign hack?
- Google to promise fairness after Motorola buy
- Report: Google cloud storage coming soon
PlayRegister for IT PRO
You'll get exclusive member benefits including free whitepapers, downloads, Webinars and weekly newsletters full of the latest IT PRO news, reviews, insight and expertise.
