Safari gains, Firefox dips in browser share
updated 05:30 pm EST, Wed February 21, 2007
Safari gains, Firefox dips
Apple's Safari Web Browser gained market share in January, even as Firefox dipped from its December high. Safari held 4.7 percent market share in January, up from 4.24 percent in December and 4.03 percent in November of last year. Firefox, conversely, fell to 13.67 percent in January from 14 percent market share in December of 2006. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the market with 79.75 percent share, putting Firefox in a distance second and Safari in third place in the Web browser market. Safari climbed more than 1 percent from February of 2006 to December the same year, while Firefox grew more than 4 percent during the same period. Internet Explorer dropped more than 6 percent over the same stretch, giving up some of its stranglehold on the browser market to both Firefox and Safari.
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putting Firefox in a distance second and Safari in third place in the Web browser market.
That's a distant second, I believe.
Of course, I'd also like to know why the numbers compare February 06 to december 06, rather then a full year (seems pretty fishy to me...)
BTW, can we take these numbers and say that Apple's marketshare must be at least 4.7 percent? And if we can get a breakdown on the firefox side, then add another 1 or 2 there, so Apple now has 7 percent of the market. From there, we can extrapolate that Apple will overtake MS and have complete OS dominance in 7 years?