Market share difference between Mozilla Firefox & Internet Explorer:
There is a rise in the market share of the Firefox web browser & on contrary; there is a decline in the market shares of the Internet Explorer. There is an observation from the market that there is a fixed turn down in the market shares of the Internet Explorer since there the launching of the Firefox web browser.
It is stated by the web analytical firm known as One stat, which is from Dutch, that this web browser is gaining popular speed as compare to Internet Explorer. It is the second widely spread web browser after Internet Explorer. This web browser had the 12.72% share up to June 2007. In addition, there is a firm called as Net Applications & according to that firm, there was the rise in the Mozilla Firefox. Therefore, up to September 2007, there was rise of 14.88% in the market share of the Firefox.
If we observe the market share of the other browsers up to November 2007, then there is the tough fifth between the Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox. In November 2007, safari got 5.14% market share. The web browser like Opera got 0.65% market share. Also Netscape got the 0.60% market share.
Also if we analysis the web browser according to their users, then are total 1093 millions net users who are using the web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey & Camino.
If we consider the general information of the web browser according to the creator & license, there is the huge difference between the Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox in terms of history.
Firstly, the Microsoft Spyglass founded Internet Explorer. It was almost free as far as cost is concerned. In addition, Internet Explorer is not open source software. This web browser has the proprietary software license. This web browser has a current layout engine called as Gecko engine.
On other hand, if we consider the evolution of the Mozilla Firefox, then this web browser was founded by the Mozilla Foundation. This web browser is free of cost for downloading. In addition, this web browser is an open source software application. This web browser had been designed under the tri license called as MPL, GPL & LGPL. Also this web browser has a current layout engine called as Gecko.
We can also get detailed information about the releasing dates & versions of the two browsers. There was the first public release of the Internet Explorer in August, 1995.This web browser was released with version 1.0 at the first public release. This web browser got confirmation as a web browser in August 1995 with its version 1.0. The fresh stable release version date of the Internet Explorer was the October 16, 2006.
The web browser like Mozilla Firefox was released on the 23rd September 2002. At the time of releasing, it was the release of the version 0.1 of the Mozilla Firefox. Also this Mozilla Firefox web browser got the public recommendation on that releasing date with that same version. The latest stable release version date of the Mozilla Firefox was 30th November 2006. At that time, it was released with version 2.0.0.11. Also the latest testing release version date of the Mozilla Firefox was November 19, 2007 & that was released with version Firefox 3.0 Beta1.
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