New research from internet monitoring firm XitiMonitor demonstrates Firefox is now entrenched as a mainstream browser, taking a market share of close to 30 per cent in Europe and Oceania, and more than 15 per cent in South America.
XitiMonitor found that Oceania, the region made up of Australia/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, was Firefox' fastest growing region.
XitiMonitor found Firefox was used by 28.9 per cent of Oceania internet users in the July survey, compared to 24.8 per cent of users its March survey.
Firefox growth in Europe jumped to 27.8 per cent in July from 24.1 per cent in March, while North America continued its strong momentum in Firefox take-up, growing to 18 per cent in July market share from 15.1 per cent in March.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the clear browser market leader, but continues to lose ground to the open source competitor. In Europe, Xiti found IE market share dropped from 73.3 per cent in to 66.5 per cent in the year from July 2006 to July 2007.
The Opera browser, also an open source system, is the third placed browser with 3.5 per cent, far behind second-placed Firefox.
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