“Internet Explorer’s remarkable rebound is the most noticeable trend in this months’ browser market share statistics, but a more subtle and important change is the growth of Apple’s Safari browser,” Jared Newman reports for PC World.
“The two-month rise for Internet Explorer is fairly easy to explain: Microsoft’s been advertising, with two commercials airing during primetime on Fox,” Newman reports. “Those ads started in June, the same month Internet Explorer bounced back over the 60 percent mark. Ads are a band-aid measure, and they don’t say anything profound about the browser market itself.”
Newman reports, “Meanwhile, Safari has grown steadily since November 2009, cracking the 5 percent mark for the first time. With Chrome hitting its first brick wall this month, dropping from 7.24 percent to 7.16 percent, Safari is the only browser to have gained consistently over the last year… In five years, mobile devices may be the most popular way to go online, according to a recent study by Morgan Stanley. Safari’s consistent climb is foreshadowing.”
Full article here.
It isn’t computers. It isn’t cellphones. It isn’t tablets.
Its the ecosystem, Stupid.
Currently, there is but one ecosystem player, and that’s Apple.
I use Firefox exclusively now. Safari is so slow at everything. I prefer Safari, but not at a turtle’s pace.
Have you tried Chrome?
I use Safari and Chrome side by side. Safari as my “work” browser when I want to bring up something. Chrome loads pages when I click on links in other applications, which tend to be non-work related. Keeps my browsing activities nicely separated.
The AD Block extension completely stripped away all the ads off this webpage!
Just, wow!
Safari 5 is now much more robust and with the growing list of extensions, I am enjoying the intertubes much more these days.
I use Safari, but I must say, bragging about a breaking then 5 % mark by .25% is a little sad.
@Bunk ‘n’ Stuff
Safari 5 can become very slow, with lots of disk activity. If that is the problem, just clear the cache in the Safari menu, that fixes it. A bug, I think.
Bunk ‘n’ Stuff
You must have some other problem. Safari, especially the new upgrade, is clearly faster for me than Firefox. Even if it weren’t, Firefox is so aesthetically challenged, it’s a bad experience
Safari is nice, But I like Opera.
Firefox is bloated and slow now.
@HowieB
Who’s bragging? It’s a news story on PC World.
Safari sucks. That and Apple TV are the worst products Apple makes today.
Today Gizmodo is reporting that Safari on iOS has a severe bug that allows easy entry into any part of iPhone or iPad. Just opening a pdf file can infiltrate and take over the device. Hope Apple plugs that quickly if true.
Safari sucks? Well for me it is by far the classiest and overall the best designed of all the browsers, my only problem is that it hangs occasionally. If you want out and out speed mind, Stainless is probably the best, just lacks a little sophistication if you like all the bells and whistles.
I have multiple Safari browsing Macs, an AppleTV and iOS 4 devices all WiFi connected to one Time Capsule at my house. Are the ALL counted or do they only see ONE at my house?
@Bunk ‘n’ Stuff
You need to clean your cache files or altogether Rest Safari. It is very fast for me. Chrome is faster, but I don’t want Google to know my browsing habits.
Safari is my preferred browser for many reasons, including integration and speed.
“Not only does this elevate to the root, giving you complete control of the iPhone, but it breaks out of the sandbox,” said Miller in an interview Monday, referring to the isolation technology designed to block rogue code from escaping the mobile Safari browser.
“There’s no shell on the iPhone, so [comex] had to do all that himself to get control,” Miller continued. “He elevated to root, turned off all code signing, broke out of the sandbox…all in the payload of the exploit.
“And it works every time. Not just a few times out of a hundred. But every time.”
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180099/iPhone_jailbreak_exploit_sweet_and_scary_says_researcher
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Good! Go to he’ll with Chrome. I don’t trust Google and instead of making their own browser they stole webkit…
@R2
“Safari sucks”
Really? Care to back that up with an explanation of why?
I’ve used Firefox, Opera, iCab and Safari (I’ve avoided Chome, ‘cuz Google already has enough info on my browsing habits) and overall I just prefer Safari. It does what I need it to do – which is open websites, and doesn’t get bogged down and slow like Firefox does.
Why exactly does it “suck”?
@HughB
“Today Gizmodo is reporting”
Giz doesn’t report, they make up stuff. They have no honesty or shame.
Safari is my daily choice as well. I do, however occasionally run across a website that doesn’t support Safari. Then I use Firefox which is completely serviceable.
In the end I’m glad there are so many choices. To each his own.
I’m like grognard… Firefox was my primary browser in Windows, and when I came back to Mac I stuck with it… but gradually with the updates, Safari began to play a part, and now I’m completely Safaried, with FF available when needed. Love clicktoflash, which is slightly nicer than flashblock for FF, but both well worth it. Now with growing list of extensions, the last real reason to favor FF is gone.
Forget it BotonCandy, R2 isn’t one to explain themselves, no more than one with Tourette’s can explain their sudden outbursts.
I don’t use safari anymore. even when I use my mac, I don’t. why? especially, safari 5.0.1 (including extension add on) has some delay problem to load entire web site. sometimes, it is crash. slower than chrome. chrome is my main browser. it’s been a while. it’s way faster than safari. no delay. nothing.