For the first time in the history of Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox has beaten the score of usage of the Internet browser. In the last month, according to the ratio, market share of Mozilla was 38.1% and Internet Explorer's was 37.5%. This is really breaking news as Microsoft, for the very first time, was left behind as its competitor went high.
Microsoft being one of the oldest organizations with integrated Internet browser, till now, had the image of masters or leaders. But now it seems that Microsoft has tough competition with Firefox. This ratio, however, is only in Europe whereas in North America Microsoft still has the market share of 48.9% as compared to Mozilla Firefox who has 26.7% of the ratio.
With this kind of ratio especially in Europe Microsoft is really having a hard time. Suggestions to Microsoft as far as Internet Explorer is concerned are that it should increase and include some new features to its browser which are competitive to Mozilla Firefox, such as add-ons for web hosting gurus and developers.. Mozilla Firefox has many special features like "Display Passwords ", "Delete Individual Cookies", etc. This helps the user of Mozilla Firefox to work with this browser more conveniently and efficiently. The other problem Microsoft Internet Explorer has is that it crashes frequently. Mozilla Firefox, on the other hand, has comparatively lesser crash ratio.
However, Microsoft Internet Explorer is integrated and is shipped along with the operating system therefore users need not to take the pain of downloading and installing third-party application. This is the point which makes Microsoft Internet Explorer preferred by many users. On the other hand Mozilla Firefox is a freeware but still it needs to be downloaded and installed on the operating system before using, for which Mozilla have their very own website and have recently acquired a new domain for add-ons from the rel=nofollow [
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