Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox browser, just published its first quarterly State of the Internet report. With over 350 million users worldwide, Mozilla collects a lot of interesting data and the organization decided to start sharing more of this data in these quarterly reports. Firefox's worldwide market share is now hovering near 30%, with Europe (39%) and South America (31%) leading the pack and North America coming in last (26%), even though it has the highest total number of Firefox users.
According to Mozilla, Firefox usage in Russia, for example, grew about 20% in the last quarter. In Indonesia, Firefox's market share is now over 60%. It'll be interesting to see how Microsoft's new browser choice screen for Windows 7 in Europe will influence these numbers over the next few months.
Mozilla also shared some data from its recent Test Pilot study about how its users interact with tabs. The typical Firefox users has between 2 and 3 tabs open at any time during the day. The maximum number of open tabs that were recorded during the study was 600.
Mozilla also took a look at the lighter side of the data in its databases.