Safari Creeps Up, Firefox dips in May

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Appleis Safari web browser is slowly inching towards a five percent market share after creeping up from 4.59 percent in April to 4.82 percent in May. Firefox, however lost some share to Microsoftis Internet Explorer.

For the first time this year, Internet Explorer regained a little market share in May by climbing from 78.03 percent up to 78.67 percent. In comparison, the cross-platform Firefox dropped from 15.4 percent in April to 14.54 percent in May, according to data from Market Share.

Safari has been on a general upswing for a year and a half, as has Firefox. Both browsers have been slowly chipping away at Internet Exploreris piece of the browser market and have managed to keep Microsoftis Windows-only application below 80 percent since December 2006.

The slight upswing in Exploreris numbers is likely due to Windows Vista sales, but even with that increase, Safari continued to climb as well - an indication that Appleis Web browser can still gain in popularity against Microsoftis market dominance.

Jeff Gamet

Jeff Gamet

Jeff is the Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X" from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also co-hosts the We Have Communicators podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other podcasts, too. Jeff dreams in HD.

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