14 DAY TRIAL // Firefox global usage share is continuously growing in the detriment of Internet Explorer. Statistics illustrating the usage share of Internet Explorer and Firefox released by analytics firm OneStat, reveal that Microsoft's browser is down on all fronts and that end users are starting to increasingly prefer Firefox. According to OneStat the trend is global and indicates both a strong uptake and usage of Mozilla's open source browser.
"The global usage share of Mozilla's browsers is 12.72 percent. The global usage share increased 1.03 percent since January 2007. Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has a global usage share of 11.48 percent. The total global usage share of Internet Explorer is 84.66 percent. Most people are still using Internet Explorer 6 which is 56.40 percent. The current global usage share of Internet Explorer 7 is 27.71 percent and increased 16.74 percent since January 2007. In the USA the market share of Internet Explorer 7 is 23.40 percent, in Canada 24.22 percent and in the UK 32.65 percent," OneStat announced via a press release.
With the exception of the French and Australian markets, Internet Explorer has experienced a consistent usage share erosion in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. It is not a coincidence that on all the markets worldwide where Internet Explorer has been losing ground, Firefox usage exploded. Mozilla's open source browser currently enjoys an ascendant trend, even in the context of Windows Vista. "It seems that some users in the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy and Belgium are switching from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox" said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com.
Microsoft announced in May, through the voice of Chairman Bill Gates, that Vista has already sold roughly 40 million licenses worldwide. Since every copy of the operating system comes with Internet Explorer 7 built in, it appears that the adoption of Vista has done little to help the usage share of IE.