Firefox 3.5 gains US browser market

BOSTON, USA: Firefox 3.5 has rapidly gained over 2 percent of the US browser market since its launch Tuesday according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. This brings Firefox’s usage of the US browser market to 31.8 percent according to StatCounter Global Stats.

“The fastest version yet of Firefox has certainly sprinted out of the blocks with 2.06 percent usage in the US in a short time,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “This latest addition boosts competition for Microsoft Internet Explorer in the browser market wars.”

StatCounter says that globally Firefox 3.5 has also hit the ground running  with 1.95 percent usage. All Firefox usage globally is 30.7 percent.

Microsoft IE combined (IE 6, 7 and 8) continues to lead with 60 percent of the global browser market and 55.8 percent in the US. Google’s Chrome has a 2.9 percent usage in the US and similar globally (2.87 percent).

Data is based on an analysis of 180 million page views (42 million from the US) for the 1st July 2009 collected from the StatCounter network of over three million websites.

StatCounter, which provides free website traffic analysis, is one of the largest web analytics companies in the world monitoring in excess of ten billion pageloads per month.