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IE Fights Downward Curve, Firefox 3 Eats into Safari's Share

Posted 08/04/08 at 08:30:00 PM  by Pulkit Chandna

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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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TAGS: Software, Internet Explorer 7, IE, Safari, Opera, Firefox 3, net applications, june market share survey
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avatarmaybe it's because...

Submitted by N25PHILLY on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 11:28am

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

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avatarjust let users decide

Submitted by wk on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 10:12am

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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avatarI agree

Submitted by Shalbatana on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 7:22am

 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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avatarFireFox...

Submitted by dwr50 on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 6:13am

One browser, to rule them all. Works with Linux,Windoz, and Crapple.

 

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