Tag: BROWSERSHARE

With the Download Squad crew (and the rest of the world) spending more and more time in our web browsers, we decided it's time to make with the weekly round-ups. Sebastian introduced you to our Firefox series last week, and now it's time to get the ball rolling for Google Chrome! Each week we'll be sharing interesting items we've gathered - news, program updates, extensions, themes - you name ...

Over the past two months, Mozilla has been hoovering up new users with reckless abandon - nearly 4 million people per week. At 330 million, the projected number of Firefox users has actually outstripped the population of the United States (which is currently around 305 million). There's a little numerical kung fu that Mozilla uses to calculate that figure, and while it might not be 100% ...

According to French analytics company Xiti Monitor, Firefox is no longer a niche player in Europe, with 23.2% of European web surfers using the open source browser, up from 19.4% in April. More telling are some of the individual countries' figures, with Firefox holding about a third of the browser share in six countries including Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, and about 40% in Finland ...