Safari Tops 7% Of Browser Market Share, Mac OS X On The Rise
Apple's Safari web browser has crested 7% of worldwide browser market share according to online research firm Net Applications.
While Safari's accomplishment is significant the biggest winner is clearly Mozilla's Firefox which crested 20% market share and climbed nearly an entire percentage point in one month. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer continues to bleed market share and now sits below 70%, a 1.5% decline from October 2008.
The news is similar for Microsoft and Apple's respective operating systems, with Microsoft Windows falling below 90% market share for the first time according to Net Applications and Apple's Mac OS X approaching 9%.
Net Applications gathers their market share numbers differently from sales-based statistics compiled by firms like Gartner or IDC in that they use identifying information from internet browsers. Therefore, their statistics best describe the installed internet-using population.
While Safari's accomplishment is significant the biggest winner is clearly Mozilla's Firefox which crested 20% market share and climbed nearly an entire percentage point in one month. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer continues to bleed market share and now sits below 70%, a 1.5% decline from October 2008.
The news is similar for Microsoft and Apple's respective operating systems, with Microsoft Windows falling below 90% market share for the first time according to Net Applications and Apple's Mac OS X approaching 9%.
Net Applications gathers their market share numbers differently from sales-based statistics compiled by firms like Gartner or IDC in that they use identifying information from internet browsers. Therefore, their statistics best describe the installed internet-using population.
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42 months ago
I'm one of the Safari > Firefox switchers.
Nice to see that both Safari and Firefox enjoy a growing market-share. IE needs some serious competition. I'm looking forward to the day when the IE graph crosses a competing browser at the 50% market share mark.
:-)
Nice to see that both Safari and Firefox enjoy a growing market-share. IE needs some serious competition. I'm looking forward to the day when the IE graph crosses a competing browser at the 50% market share mark.
:-)
42 months ago
pretty cool. I switched to firefox to escape the cataclysms of brushed metal but it doesn't handle tabs as well so i will be switching back to safari.
42 months ago
I am guessing that this includes Mobile Safari on the iPhone/touch. Good news for those who use the iPhone/touch as perhaps developers will take more time in testing.
42 months ago
wow do that many people still use IE? even on windows, everyone recommends firefox
42 months ago
As a web developer, I'm just happy that IE6 is getting down near the 20% mark and falling. I'm hoping the new computers coming in as Christmas presents make that number drop even more. It won't be long before I cut off support for IE6 completely.
42 months ago
You! IE users! I know you're there :mad: ! You enjoy browsing the web with your so called browsers but you don't have to suffer programming on them.
25% of the Web still uses IE6 and I guess they all are Windows XP users scared to connect their pirated windows to Windows update.
And in a while we will have to suffer IE8 "standards-my-grandma-rest-in-peace" compatible.
Whatever is better than IE. If you use Safari (in this case because the news are about safari)... thank you from a poor and humble web developer.
:apple:
25% of the Web still uses IE6 and I guess they all are Windows XP users scared to connect their pirated windows to Windows update.
And in a while we will have to suffer IE8 "standards-my-grandma-rest-in-peace" compatible.
Whatever is better than IE. If you use Safari (in this case because the news are about safari)... thank you from a poor and humble web developer.
:apple:
42 months ago
wow does that many people still use IE? even on windows, everyone recommends firefox
Computer illiterate people who buy a PC and just use it will be using IE. They make up a large sum of that I'd guess.
42 months ago
wow does that many people still use IE? even on windows, everyone recommends firefox
In one of my sites:
[LIST]
[*]99% Windows
[*]1% Mac : 0.8% Safari, 0.2% Firefox
[/LIST]
In the windows land
[LIST]
[*]0.6% Chrome
[*]0.8% Opera
[*]0.8% Safari
[*]24% Firefox
[*]25% IE6
[*]47% IE7
[/LIST]
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