Internet Explorer gains, Firefox slips a bit
February 6th, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 32 times, 2 so far today
Internet Explorer gains, Firefox slips a bit
Another month has gone by and we have more statistics to study when it comes to popularity of web browsers amongst the users of the internet services. The latest figures from the statistic companies reveal that Internet Explorer has gained some lost share to Mozilla Firefox.
Firefox market share continues to hover around the 10% mark. Apple’s Safari web browser also lost a minor of its market share. The statistics revealed by NetApplications.com claims that 85.31 per cent of Internet users were on Internet Explorer in the month of January. This is an improvement compared to 85.05 per cent for December 2005.
Firefox saw its market share dropping to 9.5 per cent in January from 9.57% in the month of December last year. However, more Firefox users are now on the latest version 1.5 compared to last month. This is a good indication for the open source foundation considering the users of the latest version would be automatically upgraded to latest versions through an inbuilt feature in the browser application.
Apple Safari’s web market share was down to 3 percent in January from 3.07 per cent in December. Even the market share of Netscape Browser and Opera saw a minor drop in usage. The firm also noticed that 0.04 per cent of the market was using one of the two recently released Internet Explorer 7 betas.
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February 7th, 2006 at 01:20 am
Very shortly A.O.L will start loading Netscape with its software. So, even with its reduced numbers, that will ultimately be a potential of about 15-19 million new installations. So, what will that mean? That should not automatically give Netscape credibility, should it? And how about the PC manufacturer who is going to start loading Netscape for England? That is more millions.
So, ultimately what do any of these numbers mean?
February 7th, 2006 at 01:30 am
i have seen AOL Browser and it sucks. I doubt people would be forced to use AOL browser just because their ISP ships it with the internet connection. People are smart now and they download and install Firefox :p