“According to data collected by Market Share, Apple Computer’s Safari Web browser continues to gain market share in the Internet browser segment,” Switch To A Mac reports. “In October 2005, Safari’s market share as measured by Market Share (By Net Applications) was 2.56 percent. In October 2006, Safari’s market share comes in at 3.93 percent… The rise from 2.56 to 3.93 represents a year-over-year growth of 54 percent (rounded to the nearest whole percent, actual rise is 53.5 percent) for the month of October.”
“Safari experienced a 11.3 percent increase from September 2006 rising from 3.53 percent 3.93 in October 2006. This outpaces the 10 percent growth seen between August 2006 and September 2006. Since January 2006, Safari’s market share has increased from 3.00 to 3.93 percent, representing 31 percent growth in just nine months, up from the 17.7 percent increase from January 2006 to September 2006,” STAM reports.
STAM reports, “This data clearly shows that Safari’s growth is accelerating and is showing no signs of slowing down.”
Full article with links here.
Meaning, “more people are buying Macs and turning them on.”
I keep on going back to Safari after trying out others. Its my favorite!
Yeah, I keep Firefox around for the occasional site that doesn’t like Safari, otherwise Safari is my main browser. It’s still the best. Espcially with a .Mac subscription.
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“Hold on to your hat little buddy, She’s gonna blow…” – Skipper (Gilligans Island)
ditto mudflapper
Webmasters apprentice,
Which Gilligan’s Island episode is that line from? The one where they go visit the island prostitute?
OK. I’ll stop now before I get banned.
Back on Topic:
I still think that Safari is dirt slow on both of my Macs vs. Firefox. It’s also slower than Firefox on my friend’s brand new Macbook Pro.
Go figure.
Firefox 2 has been crashing a lot on my Intel iMac…looks like I’ll be using Safari more (though I love the BBCode extension for my blog posts — guess I’ll be typing out a lot of HTML code)…
That’s odd. I’ve found Firefox to be much slower than Safari on Mac since it’s first version (I’ve downloaded and used them all). I’ve also found Safari significantly faster than Opera, iCab, fflock, and about the same speed as Conqueror. My only complaint is with the web designers who code for IE specific shite, which means I have to then run Firefox to get at the sites, so I keep an up-to-date Firefox around for that purpose, otherwise, I agree with the above, use Safari.
MW=”designed” as in: Safari is designed for speed.
Mainly use Safari. Have to use FF for one particular site where Safari just cant seem to handle the code.
I find FF faster than Safari and would primarily use it, but for the fact that I prefer Safari’s RSS implementation.
Sorry to say this, but a giant leap from 2 percent to 4 percent is not something to get all that excited about, is it??? Let me know when Safari reaches double-digits…
An Appleinsider article adds some more info on the NetAPP report.
They estimate that in excess of 600K Macs were sold in Oct!! That bodes well for record Mac sales in this Xmas quarter. Looks to be that they could ship over 2M Macs.
Give me Camino, or give me death.
Safari wants to unlock my keychain twice everytime anypage is loaded.
http://www.caminobrowser.org/
Cubert –
Close – It was the episode where Ginger was going to throw herself into the Volcano, because she heard on the radio that she was no longer relevant in hollywood. At the Climax of the episode, Gilligan rescues Ginger from the soon to erupt crater, at which point Skipper yells the text from my previous post. (i’m making this up from memory fragments, however I’m probably 95% accurate, due to something like that happening in 1 out of every 4 episodes.)
Anyway, my point was that we are near critical mass for the “New Mac Economy” and the rest of the world is about to wake up and take notice that there actually is a better way of computing outside of the Redmond dominated economy.
THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE A SAFARI VS WORLD ARTICLE… Browser information is perhaps the most reliable measurement of actual computers in the use right now. This is a Macintosh growth article. The growth has been amazing for the past year, and it is on an upward trend!
Dang, and just when I was starting to like being the only Mac guy around…
Sad to say Safari is slower than other Mac browsers. (FireFox still can’t draw decent text entry boxes). And when it’s not slower, it crashes on me.
I’ve been using Camino for months now with nary a hiccup… but I have it set to ID itself as Safari.
I like Safari, but it has an annoying tendency to freeze up and start in with the spinning beach ball on some sites. Lately, I’ve been using Firefox more and more. Version 2.0 is pretty cool.
Yawn. Another boring and useless article. As equally boring and useless as all these comments. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I find the built in RSS in Safari indispensible. FF2 and IE7 don’t measure up at all. It’s so simple, I have 15 computer sites that I watch and Safari will just put the number of new articles in the menu bar when it finds new articles on the RSS feeds. I click on it, and then open new tabs with each article I was to look at and am done. It prevents me from reading the same article twice and lets me peruse articles very fast.
But, I’ve wondered that if I do this, I’m actually opening less pages, so these trackers are only recording my views, which would be less than I am actually surfing. There are many factors in these statistics that are hard to determine, so take them with a grain of salt. On the other hand, comparing the percentage change is very informative since you are comparing the same thing to the same thing.
I would use Safari if it stopped crashing. Shiira is my second choice, then Firefox.
I’m with most people on ths thread in that I prefer Safari, but I keep Firefox around for occasional sites that are prejudice. One of those sites is MDN Safari always freezes on me when it tries to load the threads. What gives?
Safari is my favorite but I have Firefox, Opera, Camino and now Flock. I think it’s important to have browsers with different rendering engines.
Loved Safari but Camino is faster on my computer (10.3.9). Check it out… it’s free =)
Some of the things i like the most in Camino is bookmark searching, cookie management. I’ve no use for RSS; yet.
Tried Firefox but i’ll stick with Camino instead.
yeah safari rocks. i tried firefox but it looked like a safari ripoff. IE is a joke and i havent had any desire to try anything else. “if it aint broke dont fix it”~some redneck dood i heard once spouting brilliance.
I unchecked the “Other forms” option under Autofill preferences. Safari still beachballs a little, but not as much.
Safari speed up tips
1: Search Macupdate for SafariSpeed.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15704
2: Search same for SafariBlock
3: Learn how to correctly add to your /etc/hosts file and search the net for websites that contain lists of ad servers and other sites to block to make your webpages download faster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file