Firefox boosted its share by 0.6% in May, accounting for 18.4% of the browsers used during the month and putting it within shouting distance of a major milestone, according to Net Applications Inc. “Firefox is trending to hit 20% market share sometime in July,” said Vince Vizzaccaro, the company’s executive vice president of marketing, in an e-mail regarding the Firfox Download.

Although Vizzaccaro didn’t pin all of Firefox’s increase on a change last month to its update dialog, he did note the new approach. “Mozilla has implemented a change in Firefox 3.0 [Release Candidate 1] where the installation now has a checkbox that defaults to making Firfox your default browser,” he explained.

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