Internet Explorer Hits a New Low – Firefox at Fault

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Internet Explorer has managed to hit a new low, and rival applications Firefox and Safari are directly responsible for it. IE's market share has been depreciating for some time now, and even with the launch of Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft is unlikely to climb back to its apex of dominance. Back in 2004, IE's market
share was in excess of 90%. Both Firefox and Safari have been continually eroding Microsoft's position on the browser market, and while Mozilla and Apple have not managed anything spectacular over night, the two companies are indeed converting users away from IE, and what is even more important, actually keeping them.

According to statistics put together by Market Share by Net Applications, Internet Explorer owned just 77.86% of the browser market, at the end of September. The past month marks yet another acute descendant step for IE, and the loss of almost an entire point. IE dropped from 78.68% in August to under 77%, as the browser seems to be in free fall. And although Internet Explorer 7 has been available for almost a year, being a product superior in every way to Internet Explorer 6, users are not crowding to the new version. Moreover, the adoption of Windows Vista, which comes with its own built-in version of IE7, is also not helping at all with the market share.


And while IE dropped 0.8%, Firefox and Safari are picking up the crumbs. Mozilla's open source browser has jumped from 14.56% in August to 14.88% in September. Firefox is slowly regaining the market share it has lost between April and July, the crucial period when users were forced to migrate from version 1.5 to 2.0 of Firefox. Safari also did its part, contributing to knocking a few percentages off from under Internet Explorer. Apple's browser increased its market share from 4.68% to 5.07% in the past two months.

thanks bro..ganda naman talaga ng Firefox at Safari (kahit beta palang ngayon sa Windows)..mahina kasi ang response ng IE in terms of browsing kaya siguro lumilipat na ang mga tao..hehehe:lol::thumbsup:

pero in fairness ang taas pa rin ng percentage ng IE :lmao:

oo nga..dahil kasi yan ehh halos lahat WIndows OS ang ginagamit..preinstalled na kasi yan ehh kaya dami pa rin gumagamit..:thumbsup:

kaya dapat siguro maglagay na rin ang mga OEMs ng Firefox sa mga binebenta nilang PC :D

ang dapat gawin ng IE is to improve their performance and decrease the bugs:disapprove:.. kaya ang daming naglilipatan sa firefox and safari eh...:approve:

IE6 Obsolete -- IE7, Safari and Firefox Feed On Its Remains

Internet Explorer 6 is a moribund browser. There is little doubt about this aspect, and the reality is that IE6 is obsolete from all points of view, and as such, an inferior product to Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 1.5 for that matter and Safari 3 for Windows. Currently, IE6 is living its final moments, but the browser proves quite the survivor, which is a sure indication of the blatant disregard for security of some Windows XP users. More
specifically, 42.75% of all browser users are still running IE6.

According to data published by Net Applications, Internet Explorer 6 took a wrong turn in August, as it dropped from 44.59% to just 42.75% of the market. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Safari all benefited from the extra users shopping around for a new browser. The almost 2% market share drop was divided between the three products, with the lion's share going to IE7.

As Windows XP also dropped on the operating system market while Windows Vista picked up the crumbs, it is obvious that with Microsoft’s latest operating system, IE7 also increased its audience. Vista's default browser jumped in a single month from 33.55% to 34.60%. In this manner, IE7 returned to a quasi-standard pace of growth, after the initial momentum synonymous with the launch dissipated.

Firefox 2.0 was also a little shy of picking up the users abandoning IE6. And while some IE6 users indeed upgraded to IE7, Mozilla's open source browser also increased its market share from 12.98% to 13.57%. Firefox is in a constant face-off with Internet Explorer and the open source browser continues to erode IE's market share more than any other alternative solution.

The gap between IE6 and IE7 has been nothing but detrimental for Microsoft, forcing users to seek and adopt more secure browsers, and Firefox was the most logical solution. Safari 3 for Windows, still in beta, but closing in to its official launch concomitantly with the release of Mac OS X Leopard, also grabbed a small segment of the market, increasing its share from 0.49% to 0.55%.