IE Share Slips Under 70%; Firefox Surges Past 20% | Linux Today

IE Share Slips Under 70%; Firefox Surges Past 20%

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 3, 2008

“IE slipped to a 69.8% share, down from October’s 71.3% and off
7.6 percentage points in the past year.

“Rival browsers from Mozilla Corp., Apple Inc. and Google Inc.,
meanwhile, cashed in on IE’s slide and posted gains for the month,
according to Net Applications’ data, which is culled from visitors
to the thousands of Web sites the company monitors for clients.

“Mozilla’s Firefox, which briefly popped above the 20% share bar
during October, solidified that surge in November to end the month
at 20.8%, an increase of 0.8 percentage points, the largest
one-month increase since March 2007.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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