“The web browser is a cornerstone of the modern desktop or laptop. It provides a point-and-click interface to the internet. However, Microsoft is no longer the only serious player in this market,” The Age reports.
“Web monitoring specialist NetApplications.com says the software colossus commands more than 80 per cent of the browser market with Internet Explorer, which has been baked into every version of Windows for the past decade. A mere two years ago, that figure was a seemingly unassailable 92 percent,” The Age reports. “However, a sleek browser named Firefox has been eroding Microsoft’s market share since its impressive debut in November 2004 and it now counts 12.5 per cent of web users as its devotees.”
The Age reports, “Some fans have, however, complained of Firefox 2’s increased bulk and noticeably slower speed. Firefox 2 is also available for Macintosh machines, which puts the squeeze on Apple’s own Safari browser, which holds about 4 per cent of the browser market. A new version of Safari, planned for release alongside the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system in the middle of next year, will include improved searching for text on a web page.”
Full article here.
More about Apple’s Safari 3, due to ship with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, via AppleInsider here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple’s Safari browser market share up 53-percent year-over-year, shows accelerating growth – November 01, 2006
Anti-phishing measures show up in Safari 3 builds – October 20, 2006
Three new Safari 3.0 tricks produce Mac OS X Leopard lust – October 05, 2006
sputnik is being sarcarstic. Please, Please, Please take what he says for what he means… Laugh and wink, knowing he knows what we know, but writes it in a way as to accentuate the issues.
EvangelizeWithRespect
To speed up Firefox:
1. Type about:config in your location bar and hit enter
2. Type pipelining in the Filters
3. Double-click network.http.pipelining to set it to TRUE
4. Double-click network.http.proxy.pipelining to set it to TRUE
5. Double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set it to 30
6. Re-start Firefox
If you are on broadband, you should see a noticeable improvement with page loading. This won’t help dial-up users.
More discussion can be found by Googling “make firefox faster.”
“The problem with Apple’s Safari is that they tie it to the OS, rather then releasing it for free like FireFox and IE.”
That’s part of the problem, but that doesn’t explain why it’s so bloody slow.
That’s part of the problem, but that doesn’t explain why it’s so bloody slow.
Maybe it does. I believe WebKit is the actual problem.
Or simply download the Firefox add-on Tweak Network or FasterFox.
I would consider omniweb, opera, or camino if they worked with .mac to synchronize my bookmarks between machines. Until that time, I’m sticking with Safari.
@ iLie Mac
“Brace yourselves.
Vista and new MS Office being delivered to business world on Nov. 30.”
Delivered? Offered, perhaps. Ignored? Obviously!
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when i used to have it on my computer, i couldn’t help but call it “internet exploder”
people like sputnik are the IT industry’s best friends – the more it breaks down, the more secure their jobs
mw: think
I always surf this site with Camino. I get one pop-under at the beginning but in return the pages load heaps faster than Safari. I think it’s because I’m viewing “display ad” free pages. It reminds me what the net used to be like about ten years ago. It also reminds what THIS site used to be like before it got cluttered. What finally did it was those annoying phone jingle ads. I guess in a way I should thank MDN for pushing me towards Camino. It was their crass advertising that opened up my eyes to other browers.
MDN word “effect” as in cause and effect
Everyone with the true IT universe world knows that having multiple browser applications through an outstream environment is a key to success.
It stems from biology, ecological diversity is ecological stability.
Not only does the added complexity for a network administrators configuring multiple applications keep their minds sharp there is also the benefit of addressing workarounds to the security threat of non-Windows sanctioned apps.
Running a whole whack of herbivore browsers like IE is appropriate and required to sustain the few high quality carnivorous browsers like Safari for a global healthy IT environment, it is imperative for network diversity and stability as well as welcoming the insecure machines that have IE browsers and viruses like Windows.
I am editing this, I laughed too much while writting it.
Everyone with the true IT universe world knows that having multiple browser applications through an outstream environment is a key to success.
It stems from biology, ecological diversity is ecological stability.
Not only does the added complexity for network administrators configuring multiple applications keep their minds sharp there is also the benefit of addressing workarounds to the security threat of Windows sanctioned apps.
Running a whole whack of herbivore users running IE and Windoze is appropriate and required to sustain the few high quality carnivorous users running the MacOS. For a healthy global IT environment, it is imperative for network stability to have diversity, thus welcoming the huge numbers of insecure machines that have IE browsers and viruses like Windows as well as the few secure machines using MacOS and Safari.