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Mozilla Firefox users were served encrypted pageloads for the first time. With the HTTPS encryption User’s web browsing data was secured from snoopers and hackers while in transit.

The HTTPS encryption milestone was tweeted by Josh Aas, head of the Let’s Encrypt initiative which has been working to help smaller websites switch to encrypting their web traffic. 

.@Mozilla telemetry shows more than 50% of page loads were HTTPS yesterday. First time that has ever happened. pic.twitter.com/FE0FcIGPju

— Josh Aas (@0xjosh) October 14, 2016

According to Aas, Let’s Encrypt added more than a million new active certificates in the past week — which is also a significant step up. 

Mozilla was reporting that 40 per cent of page views were encrypted as of December 2015. 

.@LetsEncrypt has added more than a million new active certs in the past week. https://t.co/cl70ZLWr5m

— Josh Aas (@0xjosh) October 14, 2016

According to Techcrunch, Statista pegs Firefox at just a 7.77 per cent global marketshare for July 2016 vs 49.5 per cent for Google’s Chrome and 13.68 per cent for Apple’s Safari browser.