OneStat.com ( http://www.onestat.com ) today reported that Mozilla’s browsers have a total global usage share of 11.51 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 2.82 percent since April 2005. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 85.45 percent which is 1.18 percent less as at the end of April.
“The global usage share of Mozilla’s browsers is still growing and it seems that Netscape users and some Internet Explorer users are switching to the Firefox version. It also looks like that browser users of Internet Explorer for Apple’s Mac are switching to Safari because the global usage share is still growing. It is also interesting to see that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has less global usage share in the USA as in the UK. Mozilla’s browsers are more popular in USA and Canada as in the UK” said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com, in a statement.
The most popular browsers on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE – 85.45 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 11.51 %
3. Apple Safari – 1.75 %
4. Opera – 0.77 %
5. Netscape – 0.26 %
The most popular browsers in the USA are:
1. Microsoft IE – 80.73 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 14.07 %
3. Apple Safari – 3.55 %
4. Opera – 0.77 %
5. Netscape – 0.76 %
The most popular browsers in Canada are:
1. Microsoft IE – 78.52 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 16.98 %
3. Apple Safari – 2.05 %
4. Opera – 1.67 %
5. Netscape – 0.68 %
The most popular browsers in the UK are:
1. Microsoft IE – 93.37 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 4.94 %
3. Apple Safari – 0.99 %
4. Opera – 0.39 %
5. Netscape – 0.23 %
Methodology: A global usage share of xx percent for browser Y means that xx percent of the visitors of Internet users arrived at sites that are using one of OneStat.com’s services by using browser Y. All numbers mentioned in the research are averages of last week and all measurements are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day.
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“eh? The only reason someone would use Safari OVER Firefox IS Apple Branding.. useless”
Huh? Safari is a lot less buggy than Firefox. I can’t tell you how many times I get a popup, plus a “helpful” message from FF saying that it’s blocked a popup. Well, if you’ve blocked it, why am I still seeing it?
Have they fixed the download bug yet? If you open the Downloads window and close all other windows, the menus stop working.
Gregg Thurman,
Good comment on AOL – so true.
I read these stats another way – there must be at least 3.55% of U.S. users on the Mac platform! Obviously, the real number is actually higher. For example, I use Firefox at home (and, of course, I’m a Mac user – still bitter about being forced to use Windoze at work). So much for the often-quoted 2-3% Mac user base. Give me 4-5%!!!
MSN Magic Word – done
As in, IE is done!
Why all the animosity against the British? I have to say I’m a little offended. At least we know what multiculturalism is. Oh, and we have a welfare state so we don’t leave the poor in our country to rot. I can’t bo bothered to go on.
Every country has its good points and bad. Don’t drag them onto a Mac website, where basing those opinions on our web browser usage is quite frankly absurd.
Tim
Since Tiger and RSS Safari has been constantly crashing on all my computers and several friends. I have been using FireFox and have recently switced to Camino.
Macaday,
yes Thatcher got the British economy going in the American fashion – half the people are well-off or doing all right, and the other half are over-worked and relatively poor.
Depression and suicide in Britain on the increase.
In Germany lower and relatively stable.
When New Orleans got flooded, the mask slipped a bit in the USA and people got an awful glimpse of the real ‘state of the nation.’
In the meantime, of course, that’s got quickly swept under the carpet by the media.
I don’t believe George Bush will go the same way as Richard Nixon -although he’s very much worse – for the simple reason that there aren’t the newspapers or journalists with the same ideals or independence in the US anymore.
Where you invest your money or not is of no import.
Look rather at Bush’s ecological record.
Happy hurricanes to you!
Ahhhhhh hahhahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaahhaah ahhhh macaday who are ya…. who, who are ya…. bitch slapped all up in face.
Gimme a Mac OS and any browser other than IE and I’m a happy guy.
Uugh, if Netscape is the least used browser why did Gap and it’s relates stores change their websites to only be Mac compatible with Firefox and Netscape? i get Firefox, but Netscape!! Come on!
IE is best debugging tool for Web Designers, if you page layout looks fine on IE, it should work with FF or Safari with little no tweaks. Can’t say that on the reverse as if your page looks good on FF or Safari, it will gurantee to work on IE. LOL
var isDOM = document.getElementById;
if (!isDOM) function document.getElementById(x) { return document.all[x]);
isDOM = true;
}
I’m sorry but those UK numbers are bollocks. My company hosts web sites in the UK that together account for well into the billions of page views a year, and our breakdown is as follows:
MS IE86.11%
Firefox9.85%
Safari2.25%
Opera0.66%
Netscape0.59%
Mozilla0.45%
There you go. We’re not a bunch of M$ lackey limeys after all.
It clearly seems… the people of the UK are quite a bit slow to improve for the better and are completely Microsoft brainwashed.
Now it’s no wonder the country has the highest amount of “owned” PC bots and the most internet bank fraud victims. Over 35,000 PC’s go down because of a Windows update.
AND THE BRITS LIKE TO CALL EVERYONE ELSE STUPID?
A Nigerian eMail scammer and a Brit walked into a local bank…
funny, the dumbass US jerks call others stupid. look into the mirror, brainwashed Billy Bob LOL
I love Netscape, it’s the first browser I’ve ever used. Wow I’m part of a less than 1% group world wide (maybe). I new I was special.
Everyone, I’m not using Apple Safari but Firefox simply because:
My Apple applications wouldn’t want to launch. Safari, Address Book, iCal, Calculator etc etc….
I tried trashing the preferences, runs the utilities, it still wouldn’t want to launch.
Is there many Mac users out there also facing the same problems?
I still prefer Safari than Firefox. But have to use Firefox until someone give me the solutions to solve this…
Heeeellllllpppp…………….
One thing I’ve learned about Macs over the years is it is better to spend 3 hours rebuilding a system than spending a week fooling around trying to work out whats wrong. It’s true to say that Macs crash or get screwed up less than windows, but when a mac does decide to go all screwy it does it big time. My advice, wipe your drive off the map.
It is nice to see the numbers go up but just remember this is just a slice of the web and no one know for sure if it is representative of the whole.
I’m a British Opera stalwart. The only trouble is I hav e to set it to identify as IE to let me enter some site and I usually forget to reset it.
Who’da thunk that one day a Mac-only browser would be bigger than Netscape!
And my browser that has the ability to spoof five different browsers on the fly (by menu selection) is counted a number of times, eh? Some sites choke if loaded by anything other than Internet Exploder, yet my humble bank seems to work best when my browser identifies itself as iCab. Anyway, I’d use Shiira and Camino before Firefox.
You’ll probably find the Burberry website only renders correctly in IE.
Personally I blame Commodore. Too many Brits got disillusioned with alternatives thanks to that bunch of crooks.
To : Loooong wait for ShortHorn
I’m guessing your problem is a font problem…
Take a look at DeepSix to clean your font caches…
http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21905
what the hell is up with all the nation bashing! its about browers, no need to start insulting.
im a brit and use firefox. theres a reason ie is more popular here, and thats because we are less informed. no, not more stupid, just the general public has less knowledge.
usa – countless apple stores, cheaper macs, itunes priority, advertising…
uk – 3 apple stores (all less than a year old), no advertising to speak of, high prices, no incentives.
where was the only firefox ad? time magasine in the us.
dont confuse ignorance and intelligence…