Browser Market Share – April 2009
Using the monthly market share analysis by Net Applications, here is my monthly release of browser market share.
Firefox: 22.48% (+0.43%)
- FF 3.0: 20.25% (+0.59%)
Internet Explorer: 66.10% (-0.72%)
- IE 8.0: 4.65% (+1.58%)
- IE 7.0: 44.51% (-2.03%)
- IE 6.0: 17.52% (-0.84%)
Safari: 8.21% (-0.02%)
- Safari 4.0: 0.8%
- Safari 3.x: 6.84% (+0.66%)
Chrome: 1.42% (+0.19%)
IE continues to decline, but more importantly, IE6 continues to decline as well. The continual decline of IE6 should help to support the End of IE6 Campaign. Per my previous post, IE6 continues to decline at a rate that should make its market share low enough to no longer be considered worth the investment of supporting (this means rich media and web 4.0 here we come!) Also, the fact that Firefox has larger market share than IE6 should force ALL companies to fully support both IE and FF. Other interesting notes is that Chrome is gaining momentum and Safari hit a bit of a fallback, most likely due to Chrome.
As always, for more info, see Browser market share.
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