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Browser Wars: The End or Just the Beginning?

Published: May 31, 2012 at 10:11 am

“Browser Wars: The End or Just the Beginning?” reveals not only the impact web browsers like Chrome and Firefox have had on the once-mighty Internet Explorer, but introduces another strong contender in the battle for web browser superiority… Mobile Safari, found on devices like the iPhone and iPad. We also thought it would be fun to do a timeline of the somewhat notorious “Browser Wars” that have taken place for more than two decades.

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http://makethemclick.com.au/library Mark @ Make Them Click

A very complicated and confusing graphic. Bottomline seems to be that MSIE has lost a ton of market share to all the other browsers.

In looking at my own client’s analytics, Chrome has only half the share compared to what’s shown in your infographic so I’d question the validity of any conclusions drawn from this graphic at present.

One thing is for sure though, a highly unstable and unreliable browser like Chrome is kicking butt.

Once Google get’s it working properly it should be awesome.
- Rob Yoegel
  
  Thanks, Mark. Sorry the infographic confuses you. Let me know if there’s something specific and I will try to get to the bottom of it. Our data comes from hundreds of millions of online shopping sessions on more than 100 major retail sites. More than half of them appear in the Internet Retailer 500.
  
  One conclusion that I believe that you can come to is although a lot of attention has gone to Chrome overtaking IE, it doesn’t appear (at least to us) that people are talking about how much Mobile Safari is now used to go online.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/VVVRXMWBHPD7VEKRCOJ4YV7K5U Mark
  
  Lol, methinks we have a Windows fanboy in the house?
  
  I think the biggest reason Chrome is kicking butt (and certainly the reason I’m using it to type this reply) is it’s minimal weight. Seriously Firefox seems downright creaky in comparison. IE has long been anathema to me for regular everyday use, but it’s definitely slower as well.
  - Rob Yoegel
    
    Not at all… all Mac (Chrome and Firefox).
browman

Chrome kicks butts because merge a browser (Chrome) plus a service (Google) and normal people doesn’t care about ‘browser’s quality’ opting for simplicity.

IE is always a step behind (and maybe a couple more) from new technologies and standards, trying to lay on their own and, because of it’s included in their operative system, people initially opts for it until coming up to google offering something better (and at first sight it seems so: speed, simplicity and look).

Firefox in the latest versions has a lot of problems rendering pages, specially pdf’s. It’s getting slow and crashy, and no supporting of mp3/mp4 is a real sh….

Safari for Windows is really slow (at least for XP) and Opera is beginning to like me…
- Rob Yoegel
  
  Great feedback. Thanks for stopping by!
ZZL

Without any doubt, and without any nice graphics, what was and is THE Best browser – MAC SAFARI. As you can see, this research proves again the real superiority of SAFARI.

Market share went up from 2.65% in 2009 to 16.33% in first half of 2012…while all others are sliding DOWN. Is there need another proof, that vindoz era is in the history of the 20th century ?

And APPLE/MAC/iMAC/iPAD/iPHONE/iPod has always been and is the best computer systems.