“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).
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple’s Safari browser market share up 46% year-over-year – September 03, 2006
MDN: your sample size is too small. You only get 10 visitors per page.
Wintrolls??? My work forces me to use a PC (ugh!!!) and IE (double ugh!!!). And, as disgusted as I am by this, I must get my daily dose of MDN. Shit, I can’t pick my nose without getting permission from the IT guy…
Humble Netscape user here. Been using it since 96. I think I’m one of about less than 1% of the world that uses it. That makes me special.
Camino for the win!
“What commie mac users are using IE?”
These are are the Trolls, my friend.
Smells like BS to me. IE has got to be the biggest POS only surpassed by Windows itself.
Foley is a pillow biter.
Mikentosh
You wrote “I have Safari 1.3.2 on Panther 10.3.9 that’s my guess as to why I get pop under ads.”
I have exactly the same set up. Pop-ups come up for a split second and then disappear. Not problem.
Hmm, i wonder what sites they use. Does it include YouTube and Myspace, the 2 most visited sites on the web? Does that include search engine sites such as Google and Yahoo?
Most users treat their operating system like they treat their car, they don’t look around and see if there is a better dashboard or engine, they use the one that it came with.
Microsoft has this down, because they refuse to let you uninstall anything that was installed. They know that to hold users interest, they just have to throw a couple bones every so often. In this case, it will be Internet Explorer 7.0. This will satisfy most, and suprise, I bet you’ll find that FireFox’s numbers start going back down. The only way to solve this is to dump WIndows and load Linux or buy a Mac. Choice sometimes requires real change.
Y’know … maccam has a point.
“”What commie mac users are using IE?”
These are the Trolls, my friend.”</i?
We’re talking about fewer than 10% of the visitors but possibly 90% of the trolls. If MDN declined to serve visitors using IE6 – every one of them running Windows – most of the trolls would either <i>Go Away or switch to Firefox. There are a few – like Jim and Jeff – would be inconvenienced. But … shouldn’t they be working instead of browsing non-work-related sites? Guys – (MDN MW) consider it as MDN watching out for your job security.
I thought it was “loosing” market share.
You didn’t, did you!?