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Information Technology News Firefox 3 launch firing on all cylinders after early stumble
Information Technology News Firefox 3 launch firing on all cylinders after early stumble | Firefox 3 launch firing on all cylinders after early stumble |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 18 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Understandably, the US is the initial hot spot accounting for around 30 percent of the downloads, but Germany is also making a strong early showing with approximately eight percent.Featured Whitepaper
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The release of the new version seems likely to increase Firefox's market share. Mozilla's Blog of Metrics recently noted "rapid adoption" of the release candidate along with continued growth of Firefox 2 usage. According to Net Applications, Firefox (all versions) took a 18.41 percent browser share in May 2008, compared with 73.75 for Internet Explorer and 6.25 for Safari. Firefox and Safari have both been gaining ground at the expense of Internet Explorer. Opera has also improved its share by a healthy proportion, but is still a distant fourth on 0.71 percent. Firefox has a particularly strong following in Europe. According to XiTi Monitor, its average browser share across Europe for March 2008 was 28.8 percent. XiTi Monitor also reports that Firefox has a 31.2 percent browser share in Oceania, which includes Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Key features of Firefox 3 include a 'smart' location bar which adapts to user preferences, page display that's two to three times faster than Firefox 2, security improvements, and an add-ons manager. In all, more than 15,000 improvements have been made. Firefox 3 is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Mozilla's GetFirefox site. |
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