Firefox 4 Races Further Ahead of IE9

Mozilla May still be weeks absent from automatically upgrading users of its aging Firefox 3.5 browser, but straight-grained without the benefit of those additional users its latest browser interpretation continues to blast past Microsoft's competing Internet IE 9 in exercis.

In fact, early this month Firefox 4's usance began to show a sharp increase while IE9 continued along a very much more slow climb, Mozilla's Asa Dotzler pyramidical out on Sunday.

"Since activating the Firefox Update system and alert Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 users to the availability of Firefox 4, the line has really picked up some hie," Dotzler wrote in a blog mail service with an incidental to graph.

"Explorer 9's trajectory looks very similar to what we saw with IE8 and IE7 ahead it," he added. "Microsoft pushes new versions at an excruciatingly slow tempo."

12 Million More than Users

According to the StatCounter data Dotzler based his analysis on, Firefox 4 accounted for close to 16 per centum of the browser market on Mon, he aforesaid, patc IE9 was approaching 5 percent. "IE9's steady go on should put it close to 10 per centum in few months," atomic number 2 predicted.

Mozilla recently announced that in June it will begin automatically upgrading users of its Firefox 3.5 browser to a newer interpretation–preferably the fashionable one, but at the very least Firefox 3.6 instead. The move–which testament live the first time IT has undertaken so much a step–could potentially bring an additional 12 jillio users into the Firefox 4 sheep pen.

Various weeks ago Mozilla released the last security patch for Firefox 3.5 as the release approaches its end of life. The software successful its introduction back in 2009.

100 Million Downloads

It will be interesting to see reactions to Mozilla's modern automatic elevate plan, non to mention the whole burden on Firefox 4 exercis.

In the meantime, there seems to be no end of upright news about the winning open source web browser, including the young IonMonkey just-in-sentence (JIT) compiler as well as speed improvements for those victimisation Firefox on Linux. Firefox 4 also lately announced that it had surpassed 100 million downloads in its first month.

Will Firefox 4 win this round of the browser wars? Only time will tell. As of today, though, things are looking pretty good.