Apple’s Safari Browser proves popular despite setbacks
The computer and consumer electronics company launched the web browser on Monday, setting off another layer of competition with its arch-rival, Microsoft. Currently Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers dominate the browser space, with other browsers like Safari and Opera measuring single percent market shares.
Safari had about five percent of the market share for Internet browsers with more than 18-million users when it was previously available only for Macintosh computers, according to Apple.
To grab more than one million downloads so quickly is notable given how there are already at least two popular browsers in use on the Windows platform, namely Microsoft's predominant Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.
Several researchers wasted no time in pointing out security vulnerabilities they found in the Windows version of Safari, and Apple issued an update to the browser on Thursday to fix those bugs.
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