Most popular web browsers

geek84

Hi Folks

What would you say are the most popular web browsers? On what basis are they popular?
Would you use the same web browser every time you go ion the internet?

Thanks

Simon_B_2

Chrome as its fast and light and is now using adblock and ghostery

Hammyman

Firefox is one of the most popular in Europe but not as much in the US. Internet Explorer 6 is still putting up a fight despite being a security nightmare.

Here's the current state of affairs:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

bat999

geek84 wrote: »

On what basis are they popular?

Firefox is popular because it has many addons available.

Be careful not to start a flame war here.:cool:
People choose different browsers for different reasons.
Use one that you're comfortable with.

John_Gray

geek84 wrote: »

What would you say are the most popular web browsers? On what basis are they popular?

The most popular web browser is the one each particular person uses!

Francesanne

I've just started using Opera and I really like it. It's very fast & hasn't caused me any heartache so far.

Mobeer

geek84 wrote: »

Hi Folks

What would you say are the most popular web browsers? On what basis are they popular?
Would you use the same web browser every time you go ion the internet?

Thanks

Are you doing homework?

poppy10_2

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

July 2010:

IE8 15.6%
IE7 7.6%
IE6 7.2%
(all IE) 30.4
Firefox 46.4%
Chrome 16.7%
Safari 3.4%
Opera 2.3%

(that's for the W3 site which tends to have visitors who are interested in web standards, and therefore might have skewed stats)

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1&sample=32

July 2010

IE 60.74%
Firefox 22.91%
Chromo 7.16%
Safari 5.09%
Opera 2.45%
Other/mobile 1.66%

tronator

poppy10 wrote: »

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

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(that's for the W3 site which tends to have visitors who are interested in web standards, and therefore might have skewed stats)

You mean that people who are caring about browsers obeying web standards are less likely to use IE? That says a lot about IE

poppy10 wrote: »

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1&sample=32

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You forgot to mention what data this is.

poppy10_2

tronator wrote: »

You forgot to mention what data this is.

This data is market share for internet browsers. Thanks for your interest.

tronator

poppy10 wrote: »

This data is market share for internet browsers. Thanks for your interest.

Yes, I'm not that stupid. About the other link you said it is data about the visitors of that particular site. But at the second link you didn't mention anything where they get their data from, from visitors of their site or what?