Over five million people have downloaded the new firefox
- The new Firefox browser was released on Tuesday.
- 5.5 million people have downloaded Firefox 4.
- Mozilla makes the software.
- Firefox is the second most popular browser.
- The latest release is version 4.
- A real time map showing where in the world users have installed Firefox has been released
- Despite the big surge in downloads; it hasn’t beaten its predecessor.
- Version 3 was released in 2008.
- 8 million people downloaded version 3 on its release day.
- Firefox’s share of the market has declined in the last year.
- Competition is coming from Google’s Chrome.
- The software offers a faster and more secure online experience.
- HTML5 is used by Firefox and its rival; this is one of the main programming languages used when building websites.
- The company has grown rapidly since its birth in 2004.
- Firefox reached its peak in 2009, holding 24% market share.
- In February 2011 the share of market held had fallen to 21%
- Google’s Chrome browser has grown from 1% to 10% by February 2011.
- Internet Explorer is still the number one browser however it too has seen a fall in the market share held.
- 68% in March 2009 to 56% in February 2011.
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