Mozilla has said that since the release of the browser yesterday, they have actually been keeping a real time map of all the downloads across the world. They have said that in the first 24 hours alone, this number totalled more than 5 million downloads.

Despite this however, Mozilla’s Firefox browser has been losing popularity over the past year or so as new competitors such as Google Chrome have entered the market. Despite the huge number of five million downloads, their last offering back in 2008 saw a staggering eight million downloads on the first day of release.

Mozilla are said to be slowly losing their market share and in the last couple of years, it has dropped from around 24% to 21%. Microsoft have also recently released the Internet Explorer 9 Browser which will be competition for Mozilla.

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Microsoft disclaims an important vector of development for their browser home, but avoids a possible fine of Brussels. The European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, jubilant. “Today the Commission has committed a serious competition in a key market, the browsers,” she told a press conference . “For the first time in over a decade, European Internet users will have a real choice,” she said.

The “sometimes difficult relations”

“Today’s decision marks the end of the antitrust investigation of the Commission” and “I hope, closes a long chapter in the sometimes difficult relations between Microsoft and the Commission to open a new, more positive, “said Neelie Kroes, who will soon leave his current position for another term as commissioner, responsible for Information Society and Media in the new Barroso Commission.

Almost alone on the market a few years ago, Internet Explorer is now in competition with other browsers, including Mozilla Firefox (about one third of market share), Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and the Norwegian Opera . The screen of choice offered by Microsoft, a neutral window should propose these five browsers side by side, in a sequence generated randomly. The famous choice will be offered from mid-March 2010, the time that Microsoft to adapt its software.

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