Browser Marketshare War News: Chrome vs. Safari vs. IE vs. Firefox and Latest Percentages
Unlike search engines, the market share for web browsers are divided fairly equally, making the war between Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera highly competitive.
This month finds Google Chrome in the lead with 28.95 percent, Firefox in a close second with, 26.83 percent, and Safari in third at 26.22 percent of the market share. These stats are likely to fluctuate with the consistent updates each browser releases every year or so. Chrome has actually just recently beat out Firefox not too long ago and was predicted to do so from its early rise.
"Chrome is gaining on Firefox in usage market share," executive vice president of marketing and strategic alliances for NetApplications.com Vince Vizzaccaro said in 2011. "It's coming on strong. It could certainly overtake Firefox -- it seems to be on that path -- but, that being said, things tend to change rather quickly in this market so you just never know."
With the strides each browser makes every year in terms of design, speed, and ease of use, has them all looking and feeling fairly similar. Chrome has continued to keep its spot with the new features that tend to be released so often.
"Chrome is growing without the benefit of a homegrown hardware system. They're doing it with a rapid development cycle. That's great for personal usage. But corporations have a very slow process for testing, deployment and implementation of a new browser," Vizzaccaro said. "I think IE is entrenched as No. 1 for the foreseeable future."
Relatively new browsers such as the Edge or Opera are finding it hard to stand out due to the over-saturation. This forces the less notable ones to have to provide their own signature browsing experience for the user. In the end, it will all come down to which browser can do more for less when it comes to features.
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