Firefox, Safari, Chrome Gain; IE Continues to Fall
When Google’s Chrome first launched it made a huge splash. In the first couple of days, early adopters shifted from Internet Explorer and Firefox to check out the latest browser to hit the market.
That said, once the first week was over, the figures settled down. Those who wanted to stick with Chrome did and those who were just trying out the browser to see what Google had come up with had migrated back to either Firefox or IE.
When numbers were first released after the first week of launch, reports suggested that Internet Explorer was hit the worst. Nearly all of the users switching to Chrome were migrating from IE. CNet today reports that IE has lost even more ground in the browser war with Firefox, Safari and Chrome gaining fast.
According to CNet, IE’s market share has dropped for the seventh consecutive month and the browser saw a 1 percent drop in both October and November. Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of the global browser market share while Firefox accounts for 21.53 percent of the market. Apple's Safari claims 8.29 percent, up a significant percentage and likely correlated to the growth in Mac sales. Chrome has just 1.12 percent but still beats out Opera which clocks in at 0.7 percent.
For the full story check out CNet. Which is your browser of choice and why?
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I would like to see the photos which represent the other browsers.
I use IE. I have been using it for years. I despise Firefox, and haven't tried chrome yet. Opera is a piece of crap too.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Depends where you look really. According to w3schools, Firefox has overtaken IE market share for the first time (total 44.8% vs. 45.4%).
Personally loving Chrome at the moment. Not sure why others aren't so into it yet. Perhaps the lack of features (which is what I like about it).
Still, can't beat FFX for web developer stuff, so always have to revert to that whenever I'm building a site.
well chrome is only a front end to IE, put chrome in that browser safe mode browse a few pages then open IE and check the History you WILL BE SURPRISED!
anyway, IE is such a broken piece of kit i dont understand why it hasnt been completely kicked off the market yet, my biggest complaint is that its not CSS/HTML compliant and that i had to program one way to get my site to work with IE6 and 7 then IE8 came along and broke the website, what are my users to think really? there gonna blame the site not the browser, and im meant to code for the lowest denominator which is unfortunately IE6.
@Flakes:
Since when was Chrome a front end to IE? Have Google fixed all of IE's standards problems then, because it's a damn sight better than IE. Chrome's been written from the ground up for today's modern web. Go to madebysofa.com in both browsers and see how differently the site functions.
Not that I disagree with your statement that IE is broken though, however with all due respect why are you coding for IE? WHy not go the less stressful route and code for the good browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera), make the few minor tweaks for IE7 and Safari and put a big yet polite message on IE6 telling them to upgrade and just don't support it.
It's becoming very commonplace now.
@kitchen:
For development have you tried Chrome's element inspector? Gives you a total tree breakdown of everything in the page with all the properties and stuff associated with it - even after Javascript replacement and AJAX functions. So very cool and so very useful!
I'm using ie8 and it seems good. Firefox is slower that I.E (in my experience; on Windows) and Opera doesn't do it for me either. Does chrome still have that keylogging crap in it?
Chrome all the way as my primary browser - it's faster than anything else out there, no overly complex UI to get in the way and for a beta it's pretty solid. All the keylogging stuff IMO is just moaning to piss on Google's fire - out of the blue this search engine company starts doing browsers better than everybody else (amongst other things) so everybody's up in arms about the only thing they could pick on.
Let's be honest though, Google collects loads of data through the search engine anyway so I doubt they'd get anything new from the Omnibox. Plus FF3 and IE8 have suggestion features - you think that works without recording keystrokes?
And if you're still worried, just set Chrome to run incognito and nothing is logged or sent home.
i agree chrome is better than IE.
I have to code for Internet Explorer because that's the primary browser that my work place uses, my hand is forced...nvrmind how much i want to b*tch slap everybody onto a better browser.
but did you do as I said? put chrome into incognito mode browse a few websites, in chrome you will be told there is no history, open IE and all your history and sites you have visited are there.
Since when was Chrome a front end to IE? If you don't know anything then shut up! Chrome is closer to being a Firefox front end, as it was written from scratch but they hired some of the Firefox developers.
@ Flakes - I just tried out your claim. Absolute nonsense. Non of the sites I visited incognito with Chrome have appeared in IE's history.
No surprise there then...