Caveat: Listen, before I start, I would like to let you know that I am an Engineer, I like detail, I like to be exact, I know decimal points and most of all, I know how to put people to sleep better than your priest, pastor or rabbi. So don’t comment that it is not accurate, because I will be using new rounding techniques that I call Nuero-Axo rounding, which is also green BTW and it goes on in my head. See, this is what marketing people do, to make it easy for people to take with them and remember (Yes, I am marketing people too, I have a piece of paper on that one also). Oh, another thing, all the numbers I’m using I got from Market Share by Net Applications (http://marketshare.hitslink.com)
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It seems like every day the newcomers to the browser frontier are gaining ground on the behemoth. Google Chrome came on the scene in 2008, and it is already at 4.63% of the browser market share. 1st year it grew to 1.4% market share and now 4.63%, that’s an increase of almost 231% in 2009 alone, and 463% in the last 18 months! Watch out Microsoft.What seems to be fueling this growth? I know I’ve been using it more because of the speed. I don’t like the interface, it seems like it is still in Beta (I think Google needs to pay royalties for the word “Beta” 🙂 Anyway, I like the element inspector also. If you do any kind of web design or programming, it is very helpful. And of course I looooove the way I can search and get suggestions right at the address bar (I know other browsers can do the searching, but it is not as robust, so leave me alone).
But a couple of other honorable mentions are Opera Mini and Playstation. Although their market shares are very insignificant (.53% & .04% respectively), Opera Mini grew from .12% market share to .53%, that’s a respectable 341.67% almost as much as Chrome which has grown (463% of course, 0-4.63% in less than 18 months). Playstation doubled it’s size for market share, it went from .02% to .04% in the same time, (hey don’t knock it, that’s 100% growth), bravo Sony!
One thing I’m concerned about though is the privacy and the security of these browsers. So I use a combination of IE, Chrome and of course Firefox. Oh, I forgot Firefox, this is like the tortoise in the T&H story, a Timex (Takes a lickin’ keeps on tickin’, or the Energizer bunny. It is steadily growing, and now has a very respectable 25% (24.61% to be exact) of the browser market share. I also looove Firefox, because of all the addons (Specially Ubiquity)
So here are some interesting facts:
Browser (Market Share %)
Dec 2007 |
Dec 2009 |
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| Microsoft | 78.81% | 62.69% |
| Firefox | 16.25 | 24.61% |
| Chrome | 0.00% | 4.63% |
| Safari | 2.46% | 4.46% |
| Netscape | 0.51% | 0.32% |
| 12/2007 | 12/2008 | 12/2009 | ||
| Microsoft | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Firefox | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Chrome | N/A | 5 | 3 | |
| Safari | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
| Netscape | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| Opera | 4 | 4 | 5 | |
| Opera Mini | 6 | 7 | 6 | |
| Playstation | 7 | 8 | 8 |
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All the market share numbers I’m using I got from Market Share by Net Applications (http://marketshare.hitslink.com)