market share figures for Mozilla Firefox are inflated, due to its support for link prefetching, which uses browser idle time to download web pages that the user might visit in the near future, ZDNet UK writes (via Slashdot). Firefox and Opera have a market share of 8.7 and 1.0 percent respectively, according to figures from web traffic measurement company OneStat.com. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the dominant browser, accounting for 86.6 percent of Web surfers. But von Tetzchner claimed that Opera's market share is likely to be higher because it does not support pre-fetching and is configured by default to identify itself as Internet Explorer.
