More than 10% of net users are going online with the Firefox browser, show figures from analysis firm One Stat.

The global average of 11.5% is the highest percentage of users that the open source browser has ever reached.

The research also reveals that Americans are the biggest fans of Firefox with 14.1% using it. In the UK 4.9% use it to get around online.

Despite the success, Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the net with an 85.5% market share.

Browser battle

The figures, gathered from a sample of more than two million web users, show that Firefox's market share has grown by almost three percentage points since April 2005.


UK BROWSER SHARES
1) Microsoft Internet Explorer - 93.37%
2) Mozilla Firefox - 4.94 %
3) Apple Safari - 0.99 %
4) Opera - 0.39 %
5) Netscape - 0.23 %
One Stat said that some of this growth has come at the expense of Microsoft's browser, but it has also stolen users from other browsers such as Opera and Netscape. One Stat also reported that users of Apple's Safari browser for the Mac was also recording good growth figures.

It is thought that continuing news stories about security problems in Internet Explorer are helping to fuel the move away from Microsoft's program.

One Stat's figures are at the upper end of all estimates for the success of Firefox. By contrast analysis firm Net Applications gave the browser a 9% market share according to figures gathered in October.

In recent months, browsers, toolbars and the technology around them have become the new front line in the war between the web's biggest companies - Microsoft, Google and Yahoo - to grab and keep hold of users.

New browsers are also continuing to appear. Most recently a browser called Flock launched that tries to make it easier for users to manage what they do on the web, such as remember places of interest and store pictures, in one place.

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I LOVE Firefox, no more pop-up's or crap!

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Now that Opera is also completly fgree I think that it'll gain a lot more popularity.
It is imho still the best browser around

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Agreed. IE had the javascript issue that gave me a wicked virus thanks to the g00ns (name of a hacking group, who incidently use vB on their forum). Firefox is too insecure and many of the plug-ins don't function correctly. Netscape crashes to often. Slimbrowser is not slim and its based off of IE. Wiccio costs money and uses IE as its engine. Avant is nice, but after I accidently made it full screen, I couldn't reset it. Opera, is perfect. And, in the rare instance when the error is on its end (instead of the site), I just flip on K-Meleon. Great combo.

I use Avant and Firefox, both at the same time but doing different things.
I use the avant for all my forum going, it's quick, it loads well, and even though it's based on IE it's a darn good browser for tasking.

I use mozilla Firefox for any sites with many images, because it loads faster and each page will load everything, instead of only loading a few things and then stopping unfinished.

The only thing I have against using Mozilla all the time is their web color problems, and the borders that you can't get rid of with simple CSS, because I'm a template programer I hate those problems.
If those were fixed I'd use Mozilla 100% of the time.

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