http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/11/october-2009-browser-stats-firefox-finally-passes-ie6.ars
Web developers have waited for what seems like ages for this month to come along. Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft's browser. Firefox's steady gain continues, Safari remains in a nonthreatening third place, Chrome is happily carving out a small niche for itself, and poor Opera can't seem to budge from fifth place. In October, all browsers except for IE and Opera showed positive growth.
What I find interesting is that Chrome is quickly closing the gap behind Safari for market share. It hasn't been out that long either. I think it might have to do with the fact that not very many non-Mac users actually use Safari. What do you think the reason is for the closeness in numbers?
Web developers have waited for what seems like ages for this month to come along. Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft's browser. Firefox's steady gain continues, Safari remains in a nonthreatening third place, Chrome is happily carving out a small niche for itself, and poor Opera can't seem to budge from fifth place. In October, all browsers except for IE and Opera showed positive growth.
What I find interesting is that Chrome is quickly closing the gap behind Safari for market share. It hasn't been out that long either. I think it might have to do with the fact that not very many non-Mac users actually use Safari. What do you think the reason is for the closeness in numbers?