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Firefox Holds 10 Percent of the Browser Market

It seems the Firefox`s grip over the browser market keeps growing. Net Applications, a company that markets websites, measures and monitors online usage, has released its statistics for March 2006, and reports of that Firefox market hold has reached 10 percent. Firefox has breathed life into a market share battle that for many years had none. With a strong feature set, aggressive product development cycle, open source platform, and by offering the browser for free, Firefox has the strategy in place to maintain its growth.

Will Firefox threaten Microsoft Internet Explorer for the market lead? That is still a long way off, and depends on many factors. Firefox has gained 3.34% browser usage market share in the last year, while Microsoft IE has lost 3.89% market share in the same period. If both companies maintain their current trends, it would still take Firefox over 10 years to pass Microsoft. That doesn`t account for the new release of IE expected this year, the possibility of the browsing experience moving in mass to portable devices where Opera Browser has the advantage, or any number of changes in the market place to come.

Firefox is overwhelmingly considered the best browser available on the market today. Net Applications` survey shows an ever increasing percentage of voters favor Firefox, now with over 68% of the voters choosing it. Apple Safari and Opera Browser both had small gains in usage percentage for March as well. Apple climbed to 3.19% from 3.13% for the previous month. Opera`s gain was from 0.53% to 0.54% browser usage market share.