FreshBooks, a Toronto-based online time tracking & billing supplier, recently conducted a research of 140,000 small to medium-sized businesses on the use of the Firefox browser versus the Internet Explorer. Wherein Firefox’s browser market share were found to go up to 1.35% in February 2007 to 38.95%. While, Internet Explorer’s share came down to 0.73% to 56.95%. The research also brought forth the fact that Firefox users were additionally keen to do upgrade from FF 1.5 (10.03%) to FF 2.0 (28.92%). On the contrary, IE6 even outnumber IE7 users till 34.36% to 22.59 % correspondingly.
Nevertheless, Microsoft Windows is even now the operating system of choice; its market share increased moderately in February to 88.92%. Freshbooks claimed that propaganda behind Vista is accountable for the rapid boost. Linux has also obtained a few profits; its market share increased from 1.54% to 2.01%, whereas Mac OS came a little down from 9.04% in January to 8.55% in February. Researchers guesstimate SMBs Firefox is the only one that is expected to give IE a push for the money since many a SMBs are dependent on putting the open source browser on their desktops and switching over to IE7 could yet be a long ways off.
