THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION will be celebrating after the web counter outfit Stat Counter revealed that its open source Firefox browser overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser for the first time.
The figures show that the Vole’s Internet Exploder 7 has been on a gradual slide this year as users upgraded to IE version 8. However by a strange statistical quirk, IE8 is still not as popular as Mozzarella’s Fireferret 3.5 yet and thus the open sauce furry mammal is for once in its life the world’s number one web browser.

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