{"id":61214,"date":"2012-10-02T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=61214"},"modified":"2012-10-02T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T10:11:49","slug":"firefox-grows-as-chrome-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/61214-firefox-grows-as-chrome-slips.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox grows as Chrome slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>The latest report from Net Marketshare reveals that Mozilla\u2019s web browser, Firefox, has seen slight growth throughout September, while Google Chrome has slipped.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome has seen a gradual decline from 17.37% of the market in August, to 17.12% market share in September, slipping a little further from Firefox, which sits on 18.23% market share for September.<\/p>\n<p>After slipping below 20% share in May, Firefox looked to be handing over the silver medal to Google Chrome, but it managed to hold onto second place throughout July, August and September.<\/p>\n<p>IE, being the default browser for the Windows platform, still dominates with 48.76% &#8211; up 0.03% from August.<\/p>\n<p>Safari, Opera, Android\u2019s browser, and others make up the remainder of the market share<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61216\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61214-firefox-grows-as-chrome-slips.html\/attachment\/worldwide-browser-market-share-september\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61216\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61216 \" title=\"Worldwide browser market share September\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Worldwide-browser-market-share-September.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Worldwide-browser-market-share-September.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Worldwide-browser-market-share-September-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Worldwide-browser-market-share-September-185x130.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Worldwide-browser-market-share-September-250x175.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worldwide browser market share &#8211; September<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Net Marketshare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/10\/peak-chrome-googles-browser-falls-as-firefox-internet-explorer-stay-flat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arstechnica <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58053-chrome-extensions-to-boost-your-browser.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chrome extensions to boost your browser<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/58627-firefox-16-beta-now-available.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Firefox 16 beta now available<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/55465-firefox-15-beta-takes-on-memory-leaks.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Firefox 15 beta takes on memory leaks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web browser market share stats show Firefox gripping to second place <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":59103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[981,1137,983,14111,207,7979,985,14109],"class_list":["post-61214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-google-chrome","tag-internet-explorer","tag-market-share","tag-opera","tag-quicknews","tag-safari","tag-web-browsers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214"}],"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\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61238,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61214\/revisions\/61238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}