IE Fights Downward Curve, Firefox 3 Eats into Safari's Share
Posted 08/04/08 at 08:30:00 PM | by Pulkit Chandna
Net Applications has released the global market share statistics of all major web browsers for the month of July. Internet Explorer registered a slight increase, as its market share went up by .01% to 73.02% compared to the previous month. Although the increase is statistically trivial, its significance lies in the fact that it has come after months of steady decline. IE’s only major competitor, Firefox, witnessed a month-over-month decline of .19% and ended up with 19.03% market share. Undoubtedly, Firefox’s market share grew on the back of the pompous Firefox 3 launch in June. So the slight decline can be seen as a correction of sorts. However, Firefox 3 is still going strong at the expense of Safari and its predecessor Firefox 2. Both Safari and Opera were down in July, according to Net Applications' July survey.
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Submitted by N25PHILLY on Tue, 2008-08-05 12:28
FF3 is such garbage. I've gone back to FF2 since it actually works as well as using opera. I pretty much only use IE for sharepoint
just let users decide
Submitted by wk on Tue, 2008-08-05 11:12
widows came with preinstalled IE, so comparing IE and firefox market share is not fair. firefox surpass IE in every way.
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Submitted by Shalbatana on Tue, 2008-08-05 08:22
Firefox seems to be the only thing that computer users (who "know") across all 3 platforms can agree on. That and maybe some of those fun sourceforge projects one can never find.
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