Tuesday, February 22, 2005
The number of downloads of Firefox has reached 25 million, indicating that the open-source browser continues to gain market shares dominated by Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.
Downloads of Firefox 1.0 had reached 25.24 million last week, just over 100 days since its release, according to the Mozilla Foundation, developers of the browser.
As of January, IE's market share had fallen to 92.7 percent, while Firefox's share had risen to 4.8 percent, according to JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corp. Other browsers, such as Netscape and Opera, accounted for the rest.
The challenge for Mozilla is to lure website developers into designing their applications for IE alternatives. Many websites today have been fine-tuned for IE.
Nevertheless, market watchers said there are signs that a browser is imminent. Asides from Firefox, America Online Inc., started beta testing a standalone browser this month. Search engine Ask Jeeves is talking to Mozilla developers about building its own branded browser on top of Firefox.
By: DocMemory
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