{"id":14210,"date":"2010-08-02T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-02T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:49:00","slug":"internet-explorer-claws-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/14210-internet-explorer-claws-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer claws back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer browser has been in steady decline for the past couple of years as Firefox stamped its mark on the browser market and Apple&#8217;s Safari claimed its share of IE&#8217;s lost market share.<\/p>\n<p>That was until three months ago when at an all-time low of just over 59% of the market, IE started to trend upwards. The increases are minute but now, after three months of improvement it looks as if IE&#8217;s decline is has been arrested, for now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1&amp;sample=32\" target=\"_blank\">According to analytics firm NetApplications<\/a>, Internet Explorer&#8217;s market share for July was 60.74%, 0.42% higher than last month and a full percentage point higher than its low in May this year.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox, in comparison, had lost 1.4% market share since May and 1.68% since its previous high of 24.59% in April. The open source browser, which has been hovering just below the 25% market share mark for the past year, now sits at 22.91%.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year Google&#8217;s Chrome browser has made significant gains in the market (up from 3% in September 2009 to 7% now) but even it lost some ground in July. Chrome dropped from 7.24% to 7.16% over the course of July.<\/p>\n<p>Which leaves IE and Apple&#8217;s Safari with a healthy increase. Safari continued its upward trend, climbing 0.24 percentage points to 5.09%. Internet Explorer jumped 0.42 points higher to 60.74%.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of Google&#8217;s Chrome, however, none of the major browsers (including Opera) have made huge inroads into each other&#8217;s market share over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The three-month boost for IE is important because it reverses a trend, but with both Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 set for release shortly, a new shakeup in the market could be due.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/255200-Internet-Explorer-versus-Firefox\">Internet Explorer versus Firefox<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#039;s browser continues upward trend, at the expense of Firefox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}