Nielsen//NetRatings, has revealed the quiet, but steady, erosion of Microsoft’s dominant position over the way we in Britain access and surf the World Wide Web.Internet Explorer is still the main browser of choice for 88% of Britons online, but its share of the market has decreased by 9% over the last two years - both in absolute and relative termsFirefox is now the main browser for almost 12% of Britons online, up from just over 1% in September 2004 – a relative increase in market share of 768%!Alex Burmaster, European Internet Analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings explains
"Whilst IE still dominates the web browser space, and is likely to do so forsome time to come, the growth in take-up of Firefox shouldn’t be ignored. Asidefrom its supporters’ claims of its superior security and functionality, the opensource nature of Firefox and its competition with Microsoft has a huge appeal tothose who believe in the egalitarian and participatory ethos of the Internet. Inother words, Firefox represents, for many, Web 2.0 and IE Web 1.0. "
