Firefox 14 accounted for nearly half of all copies of the open source browser in use just a week after its launch, a sign that Mozilla’s automatic update mechanism may be working as intended.
The browser became the most-used edition much faster than its predecessors, Firefox 12, which launched 24 April, and Firefox 13, the version released 5 June.
In the seven days since its debut, Firefox 14’s share of all Mozilla browsers went from 3% on 17 July to 46% on 23 July, according to usage data collected by Irish analytics company StatCounter.
At the end of their first week, version 12 accumulated a 30% share of all Firefox browsers and version 13 accounted for 31%.
Firefox 14 was the second version that Mozilla has shipped since it seeded users with a silent updating service as part of Firefox 12.
Mozilla’s silent update service sidesteps Windows User Account Control, or UAC, to push updates into the background so that users receive a browser upgrade without interruption.
The faster adoption rate of Firefox 14, however, was not enough to stem the slide of Mozilla’s browser. With just eight days remaining in the month, Firefox had a 23.9% share of all browsers, said StatCounter’s, a dip of .7 of a percentage point from June’s average of 24.6%.
Rivals Chrome and Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, held shares of 34% and 31.6%, respectively, through Monday. Chrome’s tentative share was 1.2 points higher than in June, while IE’s was down .7 of a point.
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