Following an announcement on Twitter CEO of Mozilla, John Lilly, on Monday, Tristan Nitot, president of the company in Europe, confirmed yesterday to the news site English DNet increased 30 million single users in using the Firefox browser in the last 8 weeks.

During the last 8 weeks, the daily number had an average increase of 10 million updates, from 103 to 113 million. After adjustments, the result is a total of 330 million users each month, equivalent to the entire U.S. population. Nitot attributes much of this increase to return to school, since many students buy new computers at the end of summer vacation. A large portion of them install Firefox as one of the first steps after acquiring the equipment.

In a study released by NetApplications the site of the British newspaper The Register, the Microsoft browser appears with a loss of 1.26% of users compared to September, leaving 65.71% of the browsers. Firefox, in this same period, had a modest growth of 0.77% to 23.75% of the public.

Meanwhile, the other leading browsers, like Safari, Chrome and Opera percentages reach only a single digit, with Safari in third place ranking with 4.24% of users.

That is, despite the boom in Firefox, Internet Explorer remains the “darling of America” – and the world. For now.

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Via: The Register.