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In: Browser Watch
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. [...]
In: Browser Watch
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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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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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 [...]
In: Chrome
18 Sep 2009Google has gone on record stating that they expect to release Google Chrome for Mac by the end of the year.
Chrome for Mac is currently available for testing on Mac, but lacks many privacy features and is not recommended for every day browsing. The Google Chrome team hope to have this sorted out before the [...]
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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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4 Aug 2009Web browser market share results for July 2009 have been released thanks to Market Share by Net Applications, and for another month Microsoft Internet Explorer is down again.
Internet Explorer dropped almost half a percent to 67.68%, while Firefox was up 0.04% to 22.47%.
Other winners for the month were were Safari up from 3.79% to 4.07%, [...]
Opera Mobile is now the most used mobile browser world wide according to SiteCounter for the month of May.
Opera Mobile took the lead for the month with 24.6% of the worldwide market compared to 22.3% for the iPhone. This statistic is a little misleading however, as with iPod touch added to the total, it comes [...]
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2 Jun 2009Browser market share results have been released for May 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications, and no surprises as Microsoft Internet Explorer loose another 0.5% of it’s market share, dropping back to 65%.
Firefox had a steady month, still with its 22.5% share. Apple’s Safari has jumped from 8.2% to 8.4% this month, while [...]