Topic: Firefox 3.5 tops IE7 as most popular browser

[Clive]

Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 has surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 as the most used browser in the world, according to StatCounter.

StatCounter showed that Firefox 3.5 has 21.9 per cent of the global market, edging out Internet Explorer 7's 21.2 per cent.

However, as IE6 and IE8 also pick up 13.9 per cent and 20.9 per cent of the pie, as a whole Internet Explorer still wins 55.4 per cent per cent of the market overall, beating out the 32.1 per cent share held by all the various versions of Firefox.

IE leads by a much wider margin in the US, but Firefox 3.5 overtook Microsoft's browser as the most used in Europe over the summer - despite IE again winning out overall.

In Europe, Firefox 3.5 has 28.4 per cent of the market, over IE8's 21.6 per cent, while in North America IE8 claimed 25 per cent, followed by IE7 at 21.8 per cent and then Firefox 3.5 at 21.7 percent.

Globally, Google's Chrome has climbed into third place with 5.47 per cent, showing a bit of a rise after a version of the browser was made available for Mac and Linux users earlier this month.

Safari holds 3.4 per cent, followed by Opera at 2.1 per cent.


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[Rik]

The number of people still using IE6 is really quite frightening.

[Simon]

Indeed, but I guess a lot of people are of the 'if it ain't broke' mindset.

[Rik]

Or the 'no mindset'.

[Simon]

 

[Den]

Is that the same as Liking anything as long as it is not MS Rik 

[Rik]

Only mildly.

[Simon]

That said, I went into it totally open minded, and have found that my latest mobile phone, with Windows Mobile on it, is probably the least 'fluent' to get on with.  

[sam]

people just don't understand the security issues really.

[Simon]

Indeed, which brings us back to tutorials, or some sort of measure to stop people going online without adequate security.

[sam]

yep.