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2 Mar 2010Results for web browser market share during February are out thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
As usual, Internet Explorer lost more market share for the month, dropping from 62.12% to 61.58%.
Firefox also lost some ground, dropping slightly from 24.43% to 24.23%.
Both Opera and Safari were also down, to 2.35% and 4.45% respectively. [...]
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2 Feb 2010January has been another interesting month for web browser, with monthly data available from Market Share by Net Applications.
Internet Explorer lost more market share taking it down to 62.18%, down from 62.69%, while Firefox also suprisingly lost some ground in the same period.
Firefox finished January 2010 with 24.41%, down from 24.61% the month before.
Google [...]
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3 Jan 2010With 2009 now over, it’s time to analyse web browser market share over the last 12 months.
It’s been a big year for web browsers, with Internet Explorer taking a massive loss, down from 75.18% share in December 2008, to 62.69% share in December 2009.
Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera were all big winners, ending the year [...]
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2 Dec 2009November has been another standard month, with Internet Explorer bleeding more market share, falling from 64.64% in October to 63.62%, while it looks like most of those users have moved to Firefox, which has gone from 24.07% to 24.72% share.
Safari lost a bit of ground for the month, moving from 4.42% to 4.36%, but rival [...]
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3 Nov 2009Browser market share stats are out for October 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
As usual, Internet Explorer was down for the month, dropping from 65.71% to 64.64%, while Opera had a surprise loss, albeit only small, from 2.19% to 2.17%.
Firefox had a small gain, jumping from 23.75% to 24.07%. Safari was also up [...]
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8 Oct 2009Microsoft has made changes to the browser ballot screen that will be shipped with Windows 7, and rolled out to past versions of Windows in European Union countries, in a bid to keep the European Union happy.
The ballot screen will give users the easy choice to download and install up to 12 different browsers, with [...]
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5 Oct 2009Web browser market share results are out for September 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
Internet Explorer has had more than a 1% drop this month, falling from 66.97% to 65.71%, it’s biggest single month drop since November 2008.
Other browser have had a good month, with Firefox moving from 22.98% to 23.75%.
Safari has moved [...]
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1 Oct 2009Google has pushed out a new Chrome release to the stable, taking Chrome 3 to version 3.0.195.24.
The update fixes one security hole in the V8 JavaScript engine which is rated as high severity and could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the Google Chrome sandbox.
As usual, the browser will be pushed out to [...]
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4 Sep 2009This months browser share statistics are out thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
August has panned out like another typical month, with Internet Explorer dropping to 66.97% in August, from 67.68% in July.
Firefox jumped slightly to 22.98% from 22.47%, while Safari remained the same at 4.07%.
Google Chrome also increased its share from 2.59% to 2.84%, [...]
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22 Aug 2009Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is backing a startup who believes they have the next best browser under their belt.
Named RockMelt, the yet to be released browser is still surrounded under a cloud of mystery, with very little being known about the actual technology.
The RockMelt website offers users a registration form, allowing the, to be informed [...]