The figures are in and one thing that continues to surprise me is the market share IE6 still enjoys. Yes it's in decline, but I am just amazed that more than 20% of those browsing the web are making do with such a poor piece of software. Weirdly, I don't know anyone that uses it and wouldn't instantly remove them from my circle of friends if they refused to upgrade to IE7 at least!
- September 2008
- Internet Explorer 7 26.3%
- Internet Explorer 6 22.3%
- Google Chrome 3.1%
- Firefox 42.6%
- Mozilla 0.5%
- Safari 2.7%
- Opera 2.0%
Apple and Opera must be wondering what they have to do to get their market share to grow. Safari renders fonts beautifully, even on a PC, but they have been leapfrogged by Chrome which is still in beta and in it's first month!
I still use Firefox at work, but half of the team I work with use Chrome. I can't wait for the Mac version because it is a nice piece of software.
This post has the following tags: browsers, Chrome, FireFox, Google, IE6, IE7, Opera, Safari
This post was filed under the following categories: Technology
First posted: 10th Oct 2008 @ 16:43
This post has been updated on 1 occassion(s):
Last updated: 10th Oct 2008 @ 16:43
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