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If I were to ask you- how to determine whether a web browsing software application is a popular web browsing software application or not, how would you reply? If you say that Mozilla Firefox is a very popular web browsing software application merely because you hear of it so often, I do not think that is valid. If you say that Microsoft's Internet Explorer is not the most popular web browsing software application due to the fact that it is being criticized by so many people in so many web forums, I am sorry to say even that will not be valid.

At the end of the day the popularity of a web browsing software application depends on the number of users that particular web browsing software application enjoys. If a very average, ordinary, flawed and bulky web browsing software application has many users, then I am sorry to say that despite all the flaws, criticisms and negative aspects, only that web browsing software application can truly be called as the most popular web browsing software application. Simply put, it is all in the numbers.

If you want to find out why Mozilla Firefox is being called as the leading competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the web browsing software application market, take a look at the recent statistics provided by OneStat- the web analytics company. According to OneStat, Firefox has a global usage share of 12.93%. Microsoft's Internet Explorer's leads after capturing 83.05% of the market share.

While this figure looks very nice, the reality is that the market share of Mozilla Firefox has witnessed a significant fall since the introduction of Mozilla Firefox in the market. That is why people are calling Mozilla Firefox as the next big thing and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the giant past its prime.

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