NEW YORK (AP) — Mozilla's Firefox Web browser edged up slightly in usage at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, commanding nearly 11% of the U.S. market on a typical weekday, according to research by WebSideStory.
On Dec. 7, Firefox had a 10.7% share on computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system, an increase from 9.84% seven weeks earlier.
By contrast, IE usage dropped to 88.2%, from 89.1%.
Opera Software ASA's Opera and other browsers made up the rest.
Firefox's relative usage is often higher on weekends because many businesses have only IE installed on their machines, boosting Microsoft's share.
WebSideStory found growing adoption of IE 7, which Microsoft released on Oct. 18. The new version had 16.3% of overall U.S. browser usage as of Dec. 7. Firefox 2, which debuted Oct. 24, had a 3.12% share that day. Combined that means nearly one in five used a new browser
18-Dec-2006, 10:47 PM
Firefox share gains slightly in study
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