“Internet Explorer has regained nearly 3 percentage points of the browser market since July, while Firefox has dropped 1.4 points in the same period, a Dutch Web metrics vendor said Monday,” Gregg Keizer reports for TechWeb.
“The numbers from OneStat contradict data released last week by U.S.-based Net Applications, which said that Microsoft Corp.’s IE continued to slip and Firefox kept up its sure-but-steady gains,” Keizer reports.
Keizer reports, “According to OneStat, IE’s share of the global browser market at the beginning of October was 85.9 percent, several points higher than Net Applications’ 82.1 percent for the Microsoft browser at the end of September. Likewise, OneStat pegged Firefox at 11.5 percent, while Net Applications had it at 12.5 percent.”
Keizer reports, “The biggest difference between OneStat’s and Net Applications’ data, however, was for Apple Computer’s Safari browser. The Dutch company said Safari accounted for only 1.6 percent of all browsers used, less than half as much as Net Applications’ 3.5 percent.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The results are all over the map because it depends upon the sites that whatever firm uses to monitor. For a wild example to illustrate, browser stats for MacDailyNews for October so far show: Safari 61%, Firefox 14%, IE 7% (with other browsers/newsreaders making up the difference).
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Apple’s Safari browser market share up 46% year-over-year – September 03, 2006
I smell a rat. And this rat has not bathed in weeks. It’s a bad smelling rat. Very rat-like.
PLEASE stop it with the pop unders that Safari cant stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can stand the green ad words, but the pop unders are killing me.
popunders?
I get a small window that pops up, then under (i think) and then it’s gone.
Safari stops all the popup/unders for me for this and every other site I visit. Firfox on the other hand doesn’t handle them all.
only 61% are safari users? What commie mac users are using IE?
bastards.
you Wintrolls should be using firefox.
I’m still using Mosaic. Why change?
Yay for Opera…
Umm. i count twice. Safari at home, Firefox on Win98 at work
If you want to stop the pop-unders and a lot of other crap, equip your Safari with a copy of SAFT
I thought it was “loosing” market share.
I use whippets.
Best surfing I ever do.
I would love to use any browser other than that POS IE but at work during the day I have no choice. Our IT is completely anal and will not install any browser other than IE on our computers. And we will get severely disciplined if we install anything else. I’ve witnessed it happen.
To further their short sightedness, our HR webpage and all other webpages designed for our company are all IE compatable (translation: poorly written and follow no meaningful web standards whatsoever). I even get an error message when trying to log on to my HR page to view my paycheck in Safari (luckily we have Debug in Safari so I can trick that stupid website to let me in.) I’ve sent in a complaint nearly daily for about a year now.
In short, yes I’m ashamed I’m using IE, yes I’m fed up with the ignorance of IT all over the place, yes I loathe Windows and all the degredation on our society it has directly caused; however, I have no choice in the matter but love to read MDN. So color me a culprit as I’m a contributor to that 7% but have no choice.
Magic Word: “did” as in “Did I do something wrong in my life to be punished by having to do a job I love on a computer I absolutely hate?”
I only use IE for intranet related tasks at work; everything else I use Firefox for on Windows.
I can explain the rise in IE use, it is actually quite simple. Microsoft opened up all these centers where folks are attempting to give the appearance of hype for the Zune MP3 player. These places all must use IE and these employees are doing their job creating websites and posting on website. MS has hired so many of them they are actually impacting useage figures. Must be it, how else could you explain an increase in IE?
I’ve practically ceased using Firefox in favor of Safari. I wouldn’t touch IE with your 10′ pole.
Gregg, thank you for putting down the pole. I think we’ve made progress.
Safari is blocking evreything for me…
What’s up with your pop up ads? It5’s getting so bad I just wont come here.
There’s other places I can get Mac news…you guys aren’t that cool.
It’s interesting to read about Internet Explorer’s “gains,” because it’s not like people really “choose” to use it. It’s the default browser on Windows PCs.
In contrast, people actually choose to download Firefox, Opera or other browsers that don’t automatically come with their new computer.
Really, I barely see any reason to use IE for Mac. It’s no longer avalible or supported. If anything, it’s a huge risk (although chances are it’s still safer than IE 6 for Windows). I say go with Safari or Firefox (or if you’re into blogging, Flickr and other web services, Firefox-based Flock, my personnal choice) or anything else!
Still using Lynx here. Who needs all those “modern” browsers, anyway!
I have Safari 1.3.2 on Panther 10.3.9 that’s my guess as to why I get pop under ads.
Safari 61%, Firefox 14%, IE 7% (with other browsers/newsreaders making up the difference)
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Perhaps the best example of how MDN really does preach to the converted.
Thanks Cubert! I thought I was the only one using Lynx. Who needs graphics? This browser flies!!!
Jim, IT guys strive to keep themselves employed. IE and its vulnerabilities are a means to that end.
Other folks are just lazy or ignorant. They think since IE is made by Microsoft, it must work best with Windows. Or, they don’t know or don’t care. Then they buy a new computer every couple of years when theirs won’t work anymore due to malware.
You sound like a rare exception.