August 13, 2005
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Firefox's share of the Web browser market slipped a bit in July, while Internet Explorer gained by an equal amount, a website analysis firm said Friday.
Antone Gonsalves
Market share for the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Web browser dipped to 8.07% in July from a high of 8.71% in June, according to NetApplications, which gathered the data from the 40,000 websites it monitors.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, on the other hand, increased its market share to 87.2% from 86.56%, the Aliso Viejo, California-based, company, said. The Mac Web browser Safari showed modest growth to 2.13%, while most other Web browsers experienced little change.
"Microsoft's Internet Explorer actually gained ground at the expense of FireFox," Dan Shapero, chief operating officer for NetApplications, said in a statement.
While at 8.07%, Firefox was reaching mass appeal; August was expected to be a "telling month," Shapero said.
Earlier this month, the non-profit Mozilla Foundation launched a for-profit subsidiary to take over the development and marketing of Firefox and the group's Thunderbird email client. The Mozilla Corp. was formed to eliminate legal and tax issues that would arise, if the foundation tried to make money from its desktop products, officials said.
Market share for other Web browsers in July were 1.5% for Netscape, 0.49% for Opera, 0.52% for Mozilla and 0.09% for others, according to NetApplications.
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