Firefox 3 has finally surpassed the popularity of IE 7 in Europe....

...according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.Internet Explorer's total market share across all versions, however, still exceeds firefox

Firefox 3 has finally surpassed the popularity of Internet Explorer 7 in Europe, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter. Internet Explorer's total market share across all versions, however, still exceeds that of Firefox.
Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has made impressive market share gains in Europe over the past few years. At the moment StatCounter shows it to be just an about half a percentage point below Internet Explorer 7. In the latest market share report released by StatCounter, Firefox 3 has finally surpassed Internet Explorer 7 as the most popular browser in Europe in a breakdown by version number.

Firefox 3 holds 35 percent and IE 7 has 34 percent in that region. The recent decline of IE 7 in the past week can largely be attributed to the release of IE 8, Microsoft's new browser. According to StatCounter, IE 8 has grown to 2.3 percent in Europe, with most of those users upgrading from IE 7. This change was enough to put Firefox 3 on top. IE 6, however, still has 11 percent market share, which means that all users of Microsoft's browser across all versions still outnumber the total number of Firefox users.

"The move is partly explained by a small switch from IE 7.0 usage to IE 8.0 but also by growing market share overall by Firefox 3.0," said StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen in a statement. "The data shows that Firefox is closing the gap and is now just 10 percent behind all IE versions in Europe. In February，the global market share of IE 7 is 41 percent but Firefox 3 is 24 percent”

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