Safari ends 2006 with 4.24 percent of web browser market
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 1, 2007 at 6:10am
Apple’s Safari web browser ended 2006 with 4.24 percent of the overall browser market, according to Market Share, a site that tracks tends of Internet usage. The Mac only browser saw its browser share climb to 4.7 percent in January from 4.24 percent in December. A year ago it had 3.13 percent.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the 800-pound gorilla of the browser arena with 79.75 percent market share. Firefox is number two with 13.67 percent. Safari’s in third, followed by Netscape (.79 percent), Opera (.73 percent) and Mozilla (.19 percent). All remaining browsers have less than .04 percent each.
Market Share has a poll in which you can vote on the best web browser. Currently, Firefox leads with 29.52 percent of all votes, followed by Opera with 18.17 percent. With 8.55 percent of the votes, Safari is ahead of Internet Explorer, which has 4.47 percent.
Check out the offerings at Mac OS Ken and The Video Sandbox, Macsimum New’s media partners.
Leave a comment ⇒
Please post the article topic & comment in our forums. No registration required.
Article Information
Comment on this Article Print this Article Email this Article Digg This
Contributor
Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Recent Articles
