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The 2008 ended very well, in terms of market share for the Firefox browser. Although still far behind Internet Explorer, its position was permanent growth. Now reaches 21% of the global market.

For its part, in another dissent, the Chrome from Google, just step on the 1% of the sailors.


According to several companies that carry these measurements, the Internet Explorer remains low, and the Mozilla browser is over 21% of the global market.

The work he did and said that Net Applications in December 2008 - Internet Explorer use dropped to 68.5% compared to 69.77% the previous month.


The rest of the browser space wins. The clearest example is Firefox, Mozilla, which already owns 21.34% of the global market.

Other players


Behind the first and second ranked competitors: Apple Safari and Google Chrome 7.93%, with 1.04% of the market. Below are the Opera (0.71%), Netscape (0.57%) and Mozilla, with a market share of 0.08 percent.

The work of Net Applications shows that IE gave 7.9 points for participation, while Firefox and Safari 4.5 gained about 2.4 points.


John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, said that "reach 20% market share is an important milestone for Firefox and Mozilla. It was a great achievement by the world community of Mozilla."