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Article: The rise of Firefox: Web browser is taking a bite out of Safari.(Mozilla Firefox)(Column)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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A lot is made of browser market-share figures. They're a way to track the penetration of OS X, via the appearance of Safari in server logs. And of course, they also track the growth of the Firefox Web browser, as it gradually eats into the market-share lead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).
For a while now I've been meaning to look at our own statistics: the combined Web stats for Macworld.com, Playlistmag.com, and MacOSXHints.com.
Market research firm Net Applications estimates that IE has a 79 percent market share, Firefox has a 15 percent share, and Safari has a 5 percent share. As you might expect, the numbers on our sites are different. When I ...