Mozilla’s open source Web browser Firefox 4 reached 14.2% of the worldwide market in May, overtaking for the first time its previous 3.6 version which is on 12.3%, according to Web analytics company StatCounter.
The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that following its launch on March 22nd Firefox 4 has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9.0 which is on 4.6% globally and is just behind Google’s Chrome 11 which has 16%.
When all versions are combined IE still leads the pack globally with 43.9% followed by Firefox with 29.3%. The forward momentum, however, is with Chrome which has increased from 8.6% a year ago to 19.4% in May 2011.
Firefox 4 came out of beta on March 22, when it scored 7 million downloads in a day, beating Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, which clocked up 2.3 million downloads.
Mozilla said it expects newer versions of the browser to be released on a three-month cycle.
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