Safari and Google Chrome Gain Web Browser Market Share
Eric Calouro | Feb 02, 2010 | Comments 2
The figures are in! According to NetMarketShare, it would appear as if both Apple and Google have had a good past month or so with their own web browsers — Safari and Chrome.
Up from 4.60%, Google’s Chrome browser has managed to crawl to 5.20% market share, whereas Apple’s Safari posted 4.51% market share from a paltry 4.46% the month before. Of course, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox easily take the cake as the most popular browsers around, though they both lost some ground this past month.
Internet Explorer slightly dipped from 62.69% to 62.18%, and Firefox from 24.62% to 24.41% market share. Surely, not a significant drop in both cases — but we certainly know where those users are migrating in terms of browser usage.
Tell us about your browser moves.
[ via BGR ]
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I have been using Opera for the last several years, and Firefox occasionally for sites that still give Opera trouble. I have recently started using Chrome and it is much speedier than Firefox, though not as fast as Opera. However, I feel like a Beta tester reporting sites that Chrome won’t link to, or sites that don’t allow Chrome for whatever reason. On my list I have Opera as 1, Firefox and Chrome as tied at 2. If I need IE sometimes I use Avant and I also from time to time use Orca on top of Firefox for a little speed. On my Linux Box, it is strictly Firefox for now with Ubuntu 9.04, but I am watching Chrome.
Increase in MS of Chrome is not surprising. People need simpler UI and light browser. Latest versions of IE are bulky and takes up lots of memory when many windows are open.
I personally use Firefox and I am really satisfied with customization it offers. Let’s hope chrome coming out with add ons!