Firefox Expands Global Market Share (AAPL, MSFT)

This past Monday Japanese business and IT news services published articles about global Internet browser market share rankings based on a press release by OneStat.com. In the month of June, Firefox increased its global market share by 1.14% for a total of 12.93% while Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer lost 2.12% and fell to 83.05%. Among the various country rankings, Germany had the highest percentage of Firefox users with 39.02% versus 55.99% that use IE.

For some reason OneStat.com has been down this morning. As an alternative, click here for a link to a Japanese language article summarizing the press release -- the names of the respective browsers and market share percentages should be readable for English speakers.

Global Internet Browser Share Ranking
1. Microsoft IE 83.05%
2. Mozilla Firefox 12.93%
3. Apple Safari 1.84%
4. Opera 1.00%
5. Netscape 0.16%

United States Internet Browser Share Ranking
1. Microsoft IE 79.78%
2. Mozilla Firefox 15.82%
3. Apple Safari 3.28%
4. Opera 0.81%
5. Netscape 0.20%

Hat tip to Gen Kanai's blog where I found links to the articles in Japanese.