| Firefox 1.5 RC2 available for download |
Nov. 10, 2005
 It wasn't yet posted on the Mozilla Project homepage Thursday afternoon Pacific time, but a new beta (release candidate 2) of the Firefox 1.5 browser is now available for download.
The first v1.5 test version was released on Sept. 9. The final 1.5 version will be released later this month or in early December, Mozilla products manager Chris Beard told Ziff Davis Internet.
Firefox, which marked its 100 millionth download on Oct. 19, continues to gain market share slowly but steadily.
Growing market share
OneStat.com, an Internet traffic analyst and consultant, reported that Firefox's piece of the worldwide browser market has now topped the 11 percent mark -- up more than 3 percent from six months ago. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates, however, at 85 percent. Netscape, Opera, Safari (for Macintosh), and several others make up the remainder of the market.
Worldwide and US web browser market share
(Source: OneStat.com)
"The global usage share of Mozilla's browsers is still growing, and it seems that Netscape users and some Internet Explorer users are switching to the Firefox version," OneStat.com reported.
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