{"id":149765,"date":"2015-12-29T12:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=149765"},"modified":"2015-12-29T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T10:57:06","slug":"browser-wars-chrome-vs-ie-vs-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/149765-browser-wars-chrome-vs-ie-vs-firefox.html","title":{"rendered":"Browser wars: Chrome vs IE vs Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Statcounter Global Stats<\/a><\/strong> data reveals that Google Chrome is the most popular browser, followed by Internet Explorer and Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, Chrome increased its market share &#8211; up from 46% in December 2014 to 54% in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Internet Explorer browser has lost ground to Chrome over the last year, while Firefox and Safari usage was relatively flat.<\/p>\n<p>The graph below shows the market share of the top 5 browsers in the world over the last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-149767\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Browser-market-share.jpg\" alt=\"Browser market share\" width=\"630\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Browser-market-share.jpg 854w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Browser-market-share-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Browser-market-share-640x375.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Browser stats on MyBroadband<\/h3>\n<p>MyBroadband is mainly visited by South Africa\u2019s IT community, and according to the latest statistics Chrome is the most popular browser among these users.<\/p>\n<p>The graph\u00a0below shows the most popular browsers among people who visit MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-149769\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Browser-market-share-on-Mybroadband.jpg\" alt=\"Browser market share on Mybroadband\" width=\"630\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Browser-market-share-on-Mybroadband.jpg 727w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Browser-market-share-on-Mybroadband-640x384.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on browser stats<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/109390-most-popular-browsers-among-sas-it-professionals.html\">Most popular browsers among SA\u2019s IT professionals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/105251-mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android.html\"><strong>Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Statcounter Global Stats data reveals which Internet browser rules the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[979,1567,981,35,15537,1569,985],"class_list":["post-149765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-browser","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-headline","tag-ie","tag-internet-browser","tag-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149765"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149773,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149765\/revisions\/149773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}