It’s Friday, Friday…

Another month passes by as we look at the August market share stats to find out, how web browsers competed at the end of summer.

Internet Explorer is approaching the 50% market share mark, as it’s now down another 1.13 point, from 52.72% to 51.59%.

Firefox is the new IE and it continues to show, this time its market share has decreased by 0.4 point, down from 21.47% to 21.03%.

Another month and another gain for Google Chrome, in August Google’s web browser market share grew by another 0.97 point, from 13.49% to 14.46%.

Combining both desktop and mobile versions of Safari, its market share continues to climb as well, up from 7.37% to 7.71% (0.34 point increase).

Despite reporting growth in the latest financial report, all major trackers show Opera’s market share contraction, this time it went down from 1.62% to 1.58% (0.04 point decrease).

That’s all for now, folks.

Thanks to Net Applications for the graph.

It’s August already as we look at the July’s web browser market share numbers. As you will see from the stats below, this month was awful for everyone but WebKit.

Internet Explorer is first in our list and there are no surprises here. It has lost some of its market share again, down from 53.68% to 52.71% (0.97 point decrease).

Firefox 5 did not change the situation for Mozilla as its browser market share continues to grind lower, down from 21.67% to 21.47% (0.2 point decrease).

Google’s Chrome growth is in a steady uptrend, nothing new here, up from 13.11% to 13.49% (0.38 point increase).

As we spoiled already, Safari has also increased its market share with a pretty significant gain, up from 7.48% to 8.10% (0.62 point increase).

For pretty much 6 months in a row now, Opera continues to lose its market share, down from 1.73% to 1.65% (0.08 point decrease).

That’s all for today, folks.

Thanks to Net Applications for the graph.

As Internet Explorer is heading towards the 49% market share mark and Firefox continues its downtrend, we see interesting times are approaching indeed, but as for now, let’s focus on what had happened over the course of June.

No surprises here, Internet Explorer has lost some of its market share again, down from 54.27% to 53.68% (0.59 point decrease).

After slightly increasing its share in the month of May, Firefox resumes its downtrend as it goes down again, down from 21.71% to 21.67% (0.04 point decrease).

In the expense of other web browsers, Google Chrome share continues to climb higher, up from 12.52% to 13.11% (0.59 point increase).

It looks like WebKit web browsers are on the roll, as Safari managed to increase its market share by another 0.2 point, up from 7.28% to 7.48%.

Opera took another big hit (-15% this time), losing 0.3 point of its market share, as it went down from 2.03% to 1.73%.

That’s all for today, folks.

Thanks to Net Applications for the graph.

The upcoming Mac OS X release from Apple is set to have a browser only mode, similar to one found in Chrome OS.

According to MacRumors, Lion lock screen includes an option to “Restart to Safari”, which basically just boots an operating system with the web browser only.

Furthermore, thanks to the new auto save feature, users can continue where they left after OS is switched back to the default mode.

Mac OS X Lion is set for July release and should be available in the Mac App Store for $29.99.

Weighting a total of 45.3 MB, Safari 5.1 includes a variety of new features and improvements for both Windows and Mac OS X users.

The following release improves graphics performance on Windows, brings media caching for video and audio web apps, separates browser’s rendering process from its application process, which improves overall browser responsiveness and stability.

Furthermore, Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion users will enjoy an increased security due to plug-in isolation.

As for various web standards, Safari 5.1 is set to support the Web Open Font Format (WOFF), Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), CSS3 Auto hyphenation, CSS3 Text Emphasis, CSS3 Vertical Text and more.

Overall, a much welcomed update.

For additional details, please visit the following post.

[Thanks, Blake]

It’s getting hot out there as the first month of summer starts and it’s time to yet again, report the top 5 web browsers market share numbers.

Internet Explorer moves closer and closer to the 50% share mark, this time it went down by 0.84 point, from 55.11% to 54.27%.

After previous month’s drop, this time Firefox has recovered some of its market share and went up by 0.08 point, from 21.63% to 21.71%.

Google Chrome continues to add big chunks of the market share for its own good; up from 11.94% to 12.52% (0.58 point increase).

Safari is also doing quite well as its share continues to advance, this time it has increased by 0.13 point, from 7.15% to 7.28%.

For the month of May, Opera took a huge hit as its market share has dropped by 0.11 point, from 2.14% to 2.03%.

Thanks to Net Applications for the graph.

It’s May already as we look at the browsers market share results for the last month, April that is. Were there any drastic changes? Let’s find out.

It looks like Internet Explorer 9 is not yet good enough to prevent users from switching to other browsers as Microsoft lost market share yet again, down from 55.92% to 55.11% (0.81 point decrease).

Mozilla is facing similar situation as Firefox web browser market share decreased by 0.17 point, from 21.80% to 21.63%.

With the upcoming Google Chrome 13 release, WebKit based web browser is now responsible for the 11.94% market share, up from previous 11.57% by 0.37 point.

Apple Safari is picking up the pace as its market share continues to increase, this time by 0.84 point, up from 6.61% to 7.15%.

What about Opera? Its market share remains pretty much flat, down by 0.01 point, from 2.15% to 2.14%.

Thanks to Net Applications for the graph.

According to the official blog post, when it comes to the browser ballot screen, the EC should only count the number of Apple Safari users on Windows and not Mac OS machines, as it gives an unfair advantage to Apple and hurts smaller parties.

As you might know, market share determines the top 5 positions of the browser ballot screen and for the company that claims to be the world’s 5th largest web browser maker on Windows PCs, it’s kind of a big deal.

Among various stability and compatibility improvements, Safari 5.0.4 for Windows also fixes HTML5 bug which might have prevented videos from playing on the YouTube web site.

Changelog:

Safari 5.0.4 for Mac

- Improved stability for webpages with multiple instances of plug-in content
- Improved compatibility with webpages with image reflections and transition effects
- A fix for an issue that could cause some webpages to print with incorrect layouts
- A fix for an issue that could cause content to display incorrectly on webpages with plug-ins
- A fix for an issue that could cause a Screen Saver to appear while video is playing in Safari
- Improved compatibility with VoiceOver on webpages with text input areas and lists with selectable items
- Improved stability when using VoiceOver

Safari 5.0.4 for Windows

- Improved compatibility with webpages with transition effects
- A fix for an issue that could cause some webpages to print with incorrect layouts
- A fix for an issue that could prevent HTML5 video from playing on www.youtube.com
- A fix for an issue that could cause content to display incorrectly on webpages with plug-ins

Download.

Thanks, spicykappella!

Well, it looks like the upcoming Mac OS X Lion release will feature an improved Safari web browser that finally utilizes Webkit2.

One of the main framework goals is to utilize a split process model, so the web content would be placed into a separate process. As a result, bad plugin, tab etc. won’t crash the whole web browser.

This behavior is very similar to Chrome’s; however, as split process module is directly integrated into WebKit2 framework, other clients will be able to use it as well.

Via: MacRumors