Firefox 4 races more come of IE9

Mozilla may be still a few weeks away from automatically upgrading users to its browser Firefox 3.5 of aging, but even without the benefit of these additional users that its latest version of browser continues blast past Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 in competition use.

In fact, earlier this month following the use of Firefox 4 began to show a net increase while IE9 has continued in a much more gradual ascent, Asa Dotzler of Mozilla said on Sunday.

"Since the activation of the system to update alert for Firefox and Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 to the availability of Firefox 4, the line users really have resumed some speed,"Dotzler wrote in a blog with a graph that accompanies it.""

He added: "Internet Explorer 9 path seems very similar to what we saw with IE8 and IE7 before it,". "Microsoft pushes new versions at a slow pace horribly."

12 Million more users

Data StatCounter Dotzler has based its analysis on Firefox 4 accounted for 16% of the market of browser Monday, he said, while IE9 was approaching 5 percent. He predicted the "steady progress of the IE9 should put about 10 percent in a few months".

Mozilla recently announced that in June it will start automatically upgrades its browser Firefox 3.5 users - to a more recent version preference the more recent, but to the Firefox 3.6 at least instead. The coup - what will be the first time, it has undertaken such a step — could potentially bring an additional 12 million users into the fold of Firefox 4.

Several weeks ago Mozilla released the latest security patch for Firefox 3.5 the approach end of life release. The software debuted in 2009.

100 Million downloads

It will be interesting to see the reactions of automatic new Mozilla upgrade plan, not to mention the overall effect on the use of Firefox 4.

In the meantime, it seems y have no end of good news on the browser open winning source, including the (JIT) compiler to just-in-time of IonMonkey new and improvements of the rate for those who use Firefox on Linux. Firefox 4 has recently announced that it had exceeded the 100 million downloads in its first month.

Firefox 4 will win this war of the browsers? Future will tell. Today, however, things are looking pretty good.