Safari Breaks 10% Adoption Rate for the First Time on Strong Beta 4 Showing
Safari Breaks 10% Adoption Rate for the First Time on Strong Beta 4 Showing
Posted 03/02/2009 at 8:37am
| by Paul Lilly
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The once two-man bout between IE and Firefox has turned into a five-way blood fest in the battle for browser market share. With each contender jockeying for position, Apple's Safari 4 beta, which was recently released to the public, has been particularly well received, breaking 10 percent market share on February 28 for the first time.
Interestingly, despite Safari 4 having a strong debut, Safari's overall market share for the month of February dropped slightly from 7.70 to 7.42 percent. Meanwhile, Firefox continued to gain ground, increasing from 21.75 to 21.96 percent. Internet Explorer remained virtually the same, going from 68.18 to 68.17 percent.
The browser wars are set to heat up in the coming months as nearly everyone has an upgrade on tap. These include Safari 4 (beta), Internet Explorer 8 (beta), Firefox 3.1 (beta), and Opera 10 (alpha), as well as continued development on Google's Chrome browser (beta).
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Keith E. Whisman
March 02, 2009 at 9:22am
To be fair I just installed Safari 4 Beta and boy it's fast. It's alot better than the last time I tried out Safari. Seems to be alot more multibutton mouse friendly... That's what drove me away from Safari is that the extra buttons on my mouse did nothing. I had to use the back arrow in the browser and that sucked. Safari failed and I uninstalled it. But this one is really freaking fast and works great inside Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit.
Keith E. Whisman
March 02, 2009 at 9:10am
I think we need to sue Mac because Safari comes bundled with Mac OSX. I think that 10% can be easily explained away by pointing out that alot of people have been buying Iphones with mobile versions of Safari and the now cheaper Mac laptops that comes with MacOSX and is bundled with Safari. Also alot of people have been making Hackintoshes with again Safari as their starting browser option.
Also when you install Itunes and accidentally click on automatically keep mac software up to date you can inadvertanly install Safari. I did this once and never made that mistake again. Safari sucks. Haven't tried it recently though.
MeTo
March 02, 2009 at 9:02am
Basiclly the only time i use I.E. is when i update at MS windows (beacuse MS forces you to) other than that it's Fire Fox 3.0.6 all the way hand's down.
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