The upstart free Web browser Firefox nibbled away more ground from Microsoft over the past month and now has a market share of nearly five percent, a research firm said Tuesday.
The group WebSideStory said usage of Firefox, created by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, has almost doubled in the past three months to 4.95 percent of all Internet users.
Usage of Mozilla still trails Internet Explorer by a wide margin: the Microsoft browser built into the Windows operating system was used by 90.3 percent of Web users, the research firm said.
But that is down nearly three percentage points since October when Firefox was released.
Browsers from Netscape and others had about 2.7 percent of the market, WebSideStory said.
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