That 100-million-downloads milestone comes a little more than a month since the browsers March 22 launch. According to analytics firm Net Applications, Firefoxs market share stands at 21.8 percent, trailing Microsofts Internet Explorer franchise at 55.92 percent but ahead of Google Chrome at 11.57 percent and Apples Safari at 6.61 percent.
Net Applications numbers suggest little short-term movement for Firefoxs share, which has barely ticked from 21.74 percent in February. Firefox 4s share stands at 1.68 percent, lagging previous versions 3.5 and 3.6, the latter of which trails only Internet Explorer 8.0 as Net Applications most-used browser version.
Firefox 4 represents Mozillas first full-point browser release in nearly three years, and includes a variety of updated featuresincluding a do not track privacy function and a newly integrated Firefox Sync that enables synchronization of bookmarks, preferences, browser state and passwords between Firefox and Firefox Mobile. A new JavaScript engine, JagerMonkey, offers a significant upgrade in speed: in eWEEKs testing, Firefox 4.0 proved between four and eight times faster than Firefox 3.6.15, depending on the JavaScript benchmarks used.
In keeping with its rivals latest browser versions, Firefox 4 boasts a streamlined design that seeks to place Web content front-and-center, shrinking icons and eliminating the status bar that ran on the bottom of the application in previous Firefox versions. The tabs interface is sleeker, with an App Tabs feature for quick access to frequently visited Websites. Mozilla has also paid special mind to security, with a Content Security Policy designed to stop both XSS attacks within the browser and execution of malicious code when pages are loaded.
Mozilla had been issuing new beta versions of its Firefox 4 build every few weeks, for both desktop and mobile, in an effort to build buzz for the release and weed out any significant bugs. Firefoxs position, sandwiched between Internet Explorer and upstarts like Chrome and Safari, essentially forces it to battle on two fronts.
While Microsoft held a comfortable lock on the browser market for many years, the rise and gain of Firefox and other rivals has goaded the company into aggressively pushing the new Internet Explorer 9, which offers a stripped-down browser interface and tight integration with Windows 7. Microsoft announced April 14 that it would start offering IE9 via Windows Update.
Microsoft has also been trying to kill IE6, to the point of starting a Website, The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown, which claims, Friends dont let friends use Internet Explorer 6 and neither should acquaintances.
That 100-million-downloads milestone comes a little more than a month since the browsers March 22 launch. According to analytics firm Net Applications, Firefoxs market share stands at 21.8 percent, trailing Microsofts Internet Explorer franchise at 55.92 percent but ahead of Google Chrome at 11.57 percent and Apples Safari at 6.61 percent.
Net Applications numbers suggest little short-term movement for Firefoxs share, which has barely ticked from 21.74 percent in February. Firefox 4s share stands at 1.68 percent, lagging previous versions 3.5 and 3.6, the latter of which trails only Internet Explorer 8.0 as Net Applications most-used browser version.
Firefox 4 represents Mozillas first full-point browser release in nearly three years, and includes a variety of updated featuresincluding a do not track privacy function and a newly integrated Firefox Sync that enables synchronization of bookmarks, preferences, browser state and passwords between Firefox and Firefox Mobile. A new JavaScript engine, JagerMonkey, offers a significant upgrade in speed: in eWEEKs testing, Firefox 4.0 proved between four and eight times faster than Firefox 3.6.15, depending on the JavaScript benchmarks used.
In keeping with its rivals latest browser versions, Firefox 4 boasts a streamlined design that seeks to place Web content front-and-center, shrinking icons and eliminating the status bar that ran on the bottom of the application in previous Firefox versions. The tabs interface is sleeker, with an App Tabs feature for quick access to frequently visited Websites. Mozilla has also paid special mind to security, with a Content Security Policy designed to stop both XSS attacks within the browser and execution of malicious code when pages are loaded.
Mozilla had been issuing new beta versions of its Firefox 4 build every few weeks, for both desktop and mobile, in an effort to build buzz for the release and weed out any significant bugs. Firefoxs position, sandwiched between Internet Explorer and upstarts like Chrome and Safari, essentially forces it to battle on two fronts.
While Microsoft held a comfortable lock on the browser market for many years, the rise and gain of Firefox and other rivals has goaded the company into aggressively pushing the new Internet Explorer 9, which offers a stripped-down browser interface and tight integration with Windows 7. Microsoft announced April 14 that it would start offering IE9 via Windows Update.
Microsoft has also been trying to kill IE6, to the point of starting a Website, The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown, which claims, Friends dont let friends use Internet Explorer 6 and neither should acquaintances.
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