The Browser Wars

It is interesting to know that even though it's been publicized and claimed that Firefox/Chrome are gaining, or have gained for that matter, a lot of market over Internet Explorer, is that actually true or just some myth made up by the competition?

Let us see what the visitors stats of a sister blog say about this.

I'll post some info from the stats:

Last Month Operating System views:

2,255 from Windows OS, any kind of Windows OS, which represented 83% of the viewers

328 from Macintosh which represented 12%

5% was just a bunch of random OS ranging from Linux/Unix to iPhones, Blackberries and Symbian based phones.

There is no surprise there as we all know that Microsoft is the owner of the market and that ain't changing anytime soon from what we can see, unless cloud computing takes on sooner than expected if ever.

Now, here comes the important part.

Pageview by browser:

930 views came from IE which represent a 34%

898 from Firefox which represent a 33%

490 from Chrome which represent 18%

304 from Safari which represent 11%

54 from Opera which represented 2%

And the rest are the rest.

From this we can see that even though IE is still reigning it is no longer doing so supreme in the field. Firefox is still the better choice for Windows users, from what we can understand from the stats, and Chrome is a little way too behind the competition in third place but I'll put my money over the latter since I trust Google more than Microsoft.