Firefox, Safari add share


Slashdot, among a host of others, reports that Firefox has cornered 11.5 per cent of the browser market share, according to Web monitoring company OneStat.com. While Internet Explorer still dominates (85.45 percent), the browser has lost 1.18 percent since April.

"The global usage share of Mozilla's browsers is still growing and it seems that Netscape users and some Internet Explorer users are switching to the Firefox version," said OneStar co-founder Niels Brinkman. "It also looks like that browser users of Internet Explorer for Apple's Mac are switching to Safari because the global usage share is still growing."

Behind the leaders OneStat lists: Safari, 1.75 percent; Netscape, 0.26; and Opera, 0.77.

In September, IGM reported that Firefox' relentless market share growth had stalled.