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11/01/2006, 11:50am, EST
Wednesday, November 1st
Safari gains share in browser market
Safari usage rose in the month of October to 3.93 percent from 3.53 percent, according to statistics from Market Share. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still claims 81.28 percent of the market -- down from 82.1 percent -- and Firefox rose to 12.96 percent from 12.46 percent. Netscape grabbed 0.83 percent of the browser market in October, followed by Opera at 0.61 percent and Mozilla at 0.24 percent. Safari and Firefox continue to gain share from Microsoft's browser, despite the latest release of Internet Explorer 7.
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I hadn't seen that, so I didn't know they were putting that on Windows Update. However, the Automatic Updates shouldn't be downloading that (as its not critical, which is what that's for - for example, I never saw WMP10 get updated on my machine automatically or through a prompt, only if I went to the web-site).
I was actually glad to get IE 7 on my work machine. Sure, it looks sucky, and they did stupid things like remove the menu and all, but there's some sites I need to go to that look good only in IE (if they work at all in other browsers), and for some reason, for over a year with IE 6, pop-up windows refused to appear, regardless of the pop-up blocker setting.
I just wish Safari on OS X had some of the abilities with pop-up windows, cookies, and the like that Firefox and IE have. Blocking all pop-ups without so much as a warning just causes problems.