Firefox Users are Upgrading to Internet Explorer

For the first time in the past year, Mozilla Firefox lost its grip on the browser market dropping by almost 1%. In contrast, Microsoft's Internet Explorer managed to take itself off the downright spiral debuted in May 2006 and even pick up a little share of the market

According to statistics published by Market Share by Net Applications, Microsoft has turned the tables on Mozilla as Internet Explorer grew from 78.03% in April to 78.67% in May 2007.

At the same time, Firefox has sunk no less than 0.88%, the first time in the last year that Firefox drops coincides with an IE gain. But this is no coincidence. The fact of the matter is that the IE adoption is driven by Windows Vista sales.


The fact of the matter is that Mozilla has announced since April that it will drop support for Firefox 1.5 and urged users to upgrade to Firefox 2.0. And as on May 31 Mozilla released the last update for version 1.5 of its open source browser, it is clear that some of the Firefox 1.5 users have upgraded alright, however, not to Firefox 2.0, but to Internet Explorer instead.