Safari Gains, FireFox Tops 10% in March
Safari Gains, FireFox Tops 10% in March
by , 8:55 AM EDT, April 5th, 2006
Safari continued its slow upward climb as the number three Web browser for March, and Firefox hit a new milestone as it climbed up over ten percent. Safari's increase in browser market share was small, moving up to 3.19 percent from 3.13 percent. The Increase from Firefox was more noticeable as it moved up to 10.05 percent from February's 9.75 percent.
Statistics from Market Share show Microsoft's Internet Explorer continuing its year-long decline, dropping from 85.03 percent of the browser market in February down to 84.7 percent in March. Microsoft's Web browser is still the undisputed market share leader, but Safari holds the distinction of being the only single-platform browser with any significant piece of the browser market.
Observer Comments
With Safari itself pulling slightly more than wha tfolks are saying Apple's marketshare is. Then adding in users like myself that use Firefox and not Safari or Explorer this shows that the install base of Apple is more than the market share reports we keep hearing.
Of course I run a couple of websites and about 12% of visitors are using Macs, and we are not tech oriented websites, so that myth has already been blown out of the water.
QuoteCongratulations! You have just stumbled upon the difference between market share and install base!Guest wrote:
With Safari itself pulling slightly more than wha tfolks are saying Apple's marketshare is. Then adding in users like myself that use Firefox and not Safari or Explorer this shows that the install base of Apple is more than the market share reports we keep hearing.
Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:03 pm Subject: Re: Distinction?
QuoteGuest wrote:
"...but Safari holds the distinction of being the only single-platform browser with any significant piece of the browser market."
Is this really a distinction? It sounds like a limitation. Isn't IE a single-platform browser since they have stopped supporting Macs?
Snide comments aside, it may almost be, but it isn't yet. I know my family used IE until just a few weeks ago, when I finally upgraded them to OS X, and now they all use Safari (that's four more!), and I just switched from Firefox to Safari when I upgraded myself at the same time to Tiger. But in any case, IE is still used on Macs, and my guess is that the vast bulk of Macs still running OS 9 or earlier are using IE, as it's almost the only option. We never could get Netscape or Mozilla to work properly on our Macs, and IE's features really outshine the older versions of Mozilla/Netscape, so there is still a good number, I would suspect, of Macs using IE. Hey, even I launch it on occasion--mainly to see what I'm missing.
-Jon
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