Firefox 3.5 sees 4% bump in share for September
Firefox got a nice boost to its market share in the last month according to metrics provided by Net Applications through their Market Share service. The month of September showed a jump of 4% from August. That’s not the first 4% jump in market share for the browser in a single month either. Firefox 3.5

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