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Firefox 3.5 surpasses IE7 market share

Firefox 3.5 has managed to overtake IE7 as the most popular single version web browser. According to StatsCounter, Firefox 3.5 has surpassed all other browsers, as a single version, in user choice. Internet Explorer still has the overall edge on all other browsers combined, with 55% of the mark share.

Users are still slow on upgrading from Internet Explorer 6 & 7, showing a steady decline week over week. Users are however slowly upgrading to Internet Explorer 8, but during the upgrade period, Firefox 3.5 managed to surpass all other browsers, as a single version, in market share.

Firefox 3.5 ended the week with 21.93% of the market share, just surpassing Internet Explorer 7 with 21.20%. Internet Explorer 8 finished with 20.33%, followed by Internet Explorer 6 with 13.89%.

Internet Explorer finished with a combine total of 55.42% market share, Firefox owned a total of 31.95%, with Safari 4 finishing with a total of 3.03%. Opera managed to pick up 0.94% of the market share, and 9.19% labeled as other.

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