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With IE9, Firefox 5, and Chrome 12 all out, the second browser war is only getting fiercer. Let's take a look at the market share numbers for last month.
Between May and June, Internet Explorer dropped 0.59 percentage points, a bit less than the previous month. Firefox, meanwhile, dipped 0.04 percentage points, less than it gained last month. Chrome increased 0.59 percentage points, making it last month's biggest winner. Safari was up 0.20 percentage points. Opera lost 0.14 percentage points.
At 53.68 percent, Internet Explorer has once again hit a new low. IE9, the latest and greatest from Microsoft, last month captured 5.63 percent of the market (up by 1.44 percent percentage points). IE8 lost 1.21 percentage points, but it's still the world's most popular browser. IE7 fell 0.46 percentage points and IE6 fell just 0.18 percentage points. We're hoping that IE6 will fall below the 10 percent mark next month.
At 21.67 percent, Firefox is still below the peak it reached last year (24.72 percent). It appears that Firefox 4 and Firefox 5 are still not helping Mozilla regain overall market share. This is despite the fact that Firefox 4 last month captured a whopping 10.46 percent of the market (up by 0.38 percentage points) and Firefox 5 grabbed 2.05 percent (the latest version came out towards the end of June). Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5 together lost 2.34 percentage points.
At 13.11 percent, Chrome has hit a new high. The browser's built-in updating system is working wonders for Google. Chrome 12 managed to capture 7.32 percent (up by 7.32 percentage points). Chrome 11 meanwhile fell 3.93 percentage points and Chrome 10 fell 0.58 percentage points.
The data is courtesy of Net Applications, which looks at 160 million visitors per month. As you can see above, the situation at TechSpot is slightly different: Firefox is first, IE is second, Chrome is third, Safari is fourth, and Opera is fifth. The only browsers to gain share at TechSpot between May and June were Chrome and Safari.
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I dumped Firefox 4 in favour of Chrome purely because I got fed up of AGV Search hijacking my system. This despite all the tricks to remove it using about :config, etc. I still prefered the TABS below rather the the Tabs on Top with Chrome as I keep clicking my Favourites bar rather than the correct Tab !@#!@
Until IE gets an AdAware, etc add-on I will stick with my clean screens of etiher Chrome or Firefox (have not tried 5 yet)
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I use chrome for pretty much everything. FF is OK, I guess. I only use it for Selenium IDE.
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I used Firefox from the first time it came out. Now I use Chrome as my default browser. Chrome rocks.
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IE will always be the dominant browser because they're the only browser that will take full responsibility for Business Application Development unlike FF, Opera, and Chrome.
Majority of Business Applications run on IE.. try running them on anything else it'll fail!
FF, Chrome, Opera and etc run real nice because they've gut out all the O/S API's so that they'll run faster...but if we want to move to a stronger web app world, IE dominates that market.
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Mizzou said:
I periodically try Chrome ... it's like a browser on training wheels.
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I don't understand why Firefox is losing market share so quickly. It's still the best browsers, even if the latest version is a bit crash prone. Some people are so quick to write it off, but given time, I think it may start to grow again.
Most of my friends have switched to Chrome, but I still prefer Firefox. I just hope they keep developing it and don't give up on it completely. We need more competition, not less.
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