Web Browser Market Share

Mozilla Firefox

According to recent numbers from Net Applications, Mozilla Firefox is capturing a greater market share of web browsers.

Internet Explorer remains the dominant browser globally, according to Net Applications. However, the market share was 66.82%, the lowest level for IE in about a decade. Firefox marches on and came in at 22.05%, the highest number published by the market research firm so far. Safari climbed back up to 8.23%, after having dropped to 8.05% in February, and Google’s Chrome continued to gain slightly to 1.23%.

Additionally, Firefox has taken over as the leading web browser in Europe.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 became the most popular web browser in Europe last week, overtaking Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 for the first time on a weekly basis according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Firefox 3.0 took 35.05% of the European web browser market followed by 34.54% for IE 7.0.