Mar 23
Microsoft may have gotten a head start with its latest browser, but after less than a day of availability, the new offering from Mozilla already has more downloads–all of this according to the latest numbers from Web analytics site, StatCounter.
According to the numbers, Firefox 4 has an impressive (well, relatively) 1.95 percent share of the global browser market, having surpassed Opera 11, Firefox 3, Chrome 9, and, most notably, the most recent version of Internet Explorer. IE 9, which was released to the world on March 14th, has taken 0.85 percent of the global market.
Of course, overall, Internet Explorer is still in the lead, thanks to strong showings by IE 8, 7, and even 6. And, as TechCrunch points out, IE isn’t Windows XP compatible, which no doubt took a sizable chunk out of its potential downloaded base–the outdated operating system still has a pretty large install base.
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