Firefox Is No Longer Hip

If we are to believe the statistics published by WebSideStory, it seems that Firefox's increase rate has slowed down and that Internet Explorer is already feeling much better.

According to the WebSideStory's results, Firefox reached a market share of 7.86% in September; in April, the open source browser had 6.75%. This means that in five months, Firefox managed to increase by 1%.

Analysts estimate that Firefox has to reach a market share of at least 10% in order to be significant, but for that purpose, the browser should increase 1% a month.

At the same time, Internet Explorer's market share has recorded a lower decrease rate, Microsoft's browser going from 88.86% in April to 88.46% in September.

As for Opera, Geoff Johnston, a Web SideStory analyst, said that the decision to offer the browser came too late. If it had happened 18 or 12 months earlier, the Norwegian browser could have changed the battle of browsers.