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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

Opera Mini Browser as an alternative browser for an iPhone

Sheuli — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:33:25 +0000

Opera Software announced that it is submitting its Opera Mini Web browser to Apple Store. One of an interesting feature which Opera will have (and which Safari doesn’t have) is the ability to search the content of a Web page.

Browsers war on my PC

Sheuli — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:49:44 +0000

I have switched from WindowsXP to Windows 7. So far, so good, better that Windows Visa. Anyway, as a web developer I have to have all possible browsers on my computer, so I can check cross browser compatibility for websites I develop. I installed all of them (IE8, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) and I just faced a series of questions: “Would you like to make xxx your default browser?” The point is, during the fast flow of work I just click “no” without selecting “Don’t ask me again,” so the question will come back. Anyway, I selected Chrome as a default one.

Opera 10.50

Sheuli — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:07:29 +0000

Opera is launching today its newest browser – Opera 10.50 for Windows. Mac and Linux versions will be released soon.

You can download Opera 10.50 from here.

Worldwide browser market share, February 2010

Sheuli — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:50:21 +0000

Internet Explorer – 61.58%, Firefox – 24.23%, Chrome – 5.61%, Safari – 4.45%, Opera – 2.35%.

Source: arstechnica.com

Opera 10.50b

Sheuli — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:37:35 +0000

Opera has released the newest version of its browser. The company claims it is the fastest-performing browser ever. You can download the latest version of Opera from www.opera.com/browser/next/.

Opera – there are browsers worse than IE

Sheuli — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:00:54 +0000

Few reasons:
– problem with displaying images, in some cases images change positions on the website during uploading the content. Finally images go to the proper place but there is some delay in interpretation of css
– some input forms with option “upload file” doesn’t work with Opera, I don’t want to go into technical details, but it is serious technical problem :)
– what I found today: just wanted to log in to Google AdWords (software to advertise in Internet, known as Google Pay Per Click): We’re sorry, the AdWords interface does not work with Opera. We recommend using Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 8, Safari, or Chrome to manage your AdWords campaigns. Learn more.