THE upstart free web browser Firefox has nibbled away more ground from Microsoft over the past month and now has a market share of nearly five per cent.
Research group webSideStory said usage of Firefox, created by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, has almost doubled in the past three months to 4.95 per cent 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 per cent of web users, the research firm said. But is share is down nearly three percentage points since October, when Firefox was released.
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