The size of the market share commanded by Microsoft Internet Explorer has fallen for the seventh month. Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of the global browser market share, a decline of over seven percent a year, according to figures from Web metrics company Net Applications, which made public Monday. Mozilla's Firefox browser the meantime, gained market share during the same period, climbing more than three percentage points to 21.53 percent. Microsoft's browser has steadily lost ground to competitors in the past year. Its share fell sharply in October and November 2008, when it has lost more than one percentage point in each month.
Apple's Safari browser is now 8.29 percent, up from 7.13 percent in November, when IE radiation. Safari's share has been faster than Firefox in this period: Mozilla browser accounted for 20.78 percent of the browser uses three months ago and now has 21.53 percent. Google's Chrome browser, which was launched in September 2008, now has 1.12 percent of the market that has taken over the opera in November. Opera's market share now at 0.7 percent. Internet Explorer drop of seven percentage points since February last year is a continuing trend. Microsoft lost over nine percent of browser market share in the previous two years.
Most of the IE drop the last year has been in Internet Explorer 6, which fell 30.63 percent in February to 19.21 percent in January. Internet Explorer 7 has been the market share overall in the same period, from 44.03 percent to 47.32 percent. Microsoft released the first release candidate for Internet Explorer 8 last week. It hopes to regain lost ground by adding features like private browsing, and cross-site scripting filter.
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In fact, IE has lost share almost every month for the past 4 years!
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