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Internet Explorer Drops Worldwide

Sheuli — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:00:22 +0000

According to the StatCounter, Internet Explorer drops below 50% market share. It is very surprising, a new version of the browser IE9 had an impressive debut last month.

StatCounter Global Stats shows that the family of Internet Explorer browsers has below 50% of the market, down from about 60% a year ago. This is a worldwide statistics. IE is still above 50% in North America, however it has dropped to 40% in Europe. In Asia Internet Explorer is doing peaty good and it dominants with nearly 60% of the market.

Coming back to worldwide stats, Firefox still has a strong position number two, number three is Chrome.

If we compare use of browsers only in North America, we can see an interesting battle for the third place between Chrome and Safari.

Internet Explorer gains browser market share – July 2010

Sheuli — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:54:06 +0000

Last month IE and Safari get more fans, while other browsers lost users.

According to the newest data browser version market share looks as follow:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 – 26.87%
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 – 16.97%
Firefox 3.6 – 16.15%
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 – 11.43%
Chrome 5.0 – 6.48%

Firefox 4 Beta 1

Sheuli — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:23:34 +0000

Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux is available to download. This version even if still under beta testing is mostly stable enough for regular use. The biggest improvements between Firefox 3 the newest one is speed.

Firefox 4 supports also CSS 3 and HTML5, it has also better protection against buggy plugins which crash the browser. The company plans to release a new beta version of the browser every two weeks. According to the newest data about Browser Market Share Firefox is the second (after IE) most popular browser on the market.

Browser Market Share June 2010

Sheuli — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:26:00 +0000

Browser Market Share for June 2010 shows that Firefox and Opera don’t change their position, Safari and Chrome are slowly moving up. The biggest news is that Internet Explorer gained market share. Bad news for Web developers – actually even Internet Explorer 6 gained market share this month.

Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s browser is used by more than 6 out of 10 people. Statistics shows that IE8 is used by more than one in four users on the Web. Unfortunately for Website developers and Web designers, IE6’s share is greater than IE7’s. Indeed Internet Explorer 6 gained 0.01 percentage points this month. The reason of it is that business still us using IE6 for customized intranet applications, also we can see that Windows XP (which has integrated Internet Explorer 6) is still more popular than Vista.

Sources: marketshare.hitslink.com

Mozilla about Firefox Market Share

Sheuli — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:22:12 +0000

According to Mozilla’s State of the Internet report “Looking across several sources of market share data, Firefox’s worldwide share appears close to 30%“.