Firefox captures twenty percent of net; Chrome ties Opera

For the first time ever, the Firefox browser accounted for 20 percent of browser usage over a sustained period. The browser topped the one-fifth mark for two weeks in October.

The numbers for the rest of the month weren't too shabby either, according to numbers released by analytics provider NetApplications. At no point during the month did the browser represent less than 19.23 percent of browser usage. On its best day, October 19, Firefox's share of the browser universe was 21.78 percent.

The daily statistics show one interesting little quirk: higher Firefox percentages every single weekend. A few factors may be in play there, including in-office standardization on Internet Explorer, and perhaps the tendency of people who'd go to the trouble of choosing a non-standard browser to spend more leisure time in general on their machines.

Firefox's usage share, according to NetApplications, was 17.76% in April 2008. Usage dropped slightly between August (19.73%) and September (19.46%) before surging up last month. The September defections mainly moved to IE, which jumped to 71.52% of browser usage before settling down to 71.27 in October. Safari was down .08% to 6.57% of the market, and Opera ticked up .06% to .75% of Web users. Chrome, for which statistics were first recorded in September, started with .78% and in October edged down to .74%.

More statistics may be viewed on the NetApplications site.

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