Asia Times Online, 4 Jul 2009, Martin J Young
A little over 24 hours after Mozilla unleashed Firefox 3.5 this week, its servers notched up 5 million downloads of the latest iteration of the world's second-most popular web browser. The download rate was lower than the previous version of Firefox, launched in June 2008 following a massive marketing campaign.
Mozilla has a very effective upgrade mechanism which gets people adopting the latest versions faster that its rivals. The download and installation is painless and all settings, bookmarks and add-ons from Firefox 3 are seamlessly transferred. Its current total market share according to research firm Net Applications is around the 22% mark.
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