Safari and Firefox grow at expense of Internet Explorer

It’s been long known that Internet Explorer is the most used web browser but it’s also a known fact that it has been losing market share to Firefox for some time now. Today we are hearing that Safari and Firefox have been growing at the expense of Internet Explorer and if you’re a percent person lets give you some figures.

The Safari Web browser has gained market share for two months in a row and now has 6.25 percent of the browser market, although Firefox has a lot more at 19.03 percent at the end of June and this figure has been steadily moving up month on month. Both Apple and Mozilla’s web browsers are taking more market share each month but Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still has a dominant 73.01 percent of the market.

While that’s a massive lead for Microsoft it is still one that can be overtaken if it keeps losing surfers to Safari and Firefox. These statistics give you an outlook of the current web browser market but in the whole, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is consistently losing people. The other brands have a long way to go and I am sure Microsoft is not sitting around letting this happen, so anything can happen yet.

What web browser do you use and what features make you choose that browser?

It looks like Firefox 2 is the most secure Web browser, this would be assumed because 83.3% of its users run the most current version and this is compared to 45.2% of Internet users who do not use the latest version of their Internet browser and this will then not be as secure. Do you always update your web browser as soon as an update is available?

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