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  • IE6 Falls Below 5% Usage in US, Europe, Still Beating Chrome

    Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have taken up a good deal of the web browser headlines in recent memory. Google showcased its much-publicized speed tests for Chrome (even parodied by Opera), then launched a stable version for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mozilla recently shared an early product plan for Firefox 4, with (like Chrome) an emphasis on speed (then CEO John Lilly announced he was stepping down).

    It is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which still rules the roost, however, in terms of browser market share on the desktop in the U.S. IE8 and IE7 have significant leads over all the competition, but IE6, while still having an edge over the rising Chrome, dropped to below 5% for the first time, according to StatCounter.

    The analytics firm says usage of IE6 in the US and Europe has fell to that point – 4.7% (a year ago, it was at 11.5%).

     

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Version Market Share

     

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Version Market Share

    "At these levels web developers now have valid justification not to support IE6 in the future," says StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen, with the firm adding that a number of sites including YouTube are already understood to have withdrawn support for IE6.

    "IE6 has been a bit of a pain for many web developers and designers who have often had to recode their site to get it to work. There are also security implications in its continued usage," addsCullen.

    In other parts of the world, IE6 is still a more significant part of the picture. Cullen says that if your target market is Asia, you’re "not out of the woods." According to the firm, it still has 20.8% usage there. In that part of the world, IE8 has only just overtaken it. It’s also still pretty big in Africa.

  • Weighing The Benefits Of Facebook Toolbar

    Weighing The Benefits Of Facebook Toolbar

    Here is a quick productivity tip if you find yourself logging in and out of Facebook – did you know that there is a tool bar for Windows Explorer and Firefox for Facebook?

    The Facebook Toolbar allows you to log into Facebook direct from your browser.

    You can quickly navigate to friend requests, new messages, event invitations, group invitations, upload photographs and even share pages you are currently browsing to your Facebook profile.

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    I personally like the ‘quick links’ facility where I can navigate to my friends lists to quickly review what my friends have been posting or keep up to date with Facebook Pages I am a fan of.

    Be warned that if you activate the Facebook Friends sidebar that it could distract you as you will see all the updates from your friends in real time.

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    And I would also recommend that you review the ‘settings’ so that you customise what if any pop-up notifications you want to receive from Facebook.

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    You can download the Facebook Toolbar for Firefox of Internet Explorer here.

    What is your favourite way of connecting with your Facebook Friends and your community on your Facebook Page?

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  • Chrome’s Market Share Tops 6 Percent In March

    March was yet another good month for Google’s browser in terms of market share.  According to Net Applications, Chrome converted more than a few additional people, shrinking the gaps between it and the field’s two leaders, Internet Explorer and Firefox.

    Net Applications put Chrome’s March market share at 6.13 percent, up 0.52 percent from its February standing of 5.61 percent.  That’s a pretty impressive gain to pull off in so short a time, especially given the smallish size of Chrome’s user base.

    That gain makes the forecasting math simple, too, since it’s easy to judge that Chrome will gain about 1.0 percent of market share every couple of months if it can keep up the pace.

    As for how Internet Explorer did, ground was lost.  This browser’s share decreased from 61.58 percent to 60.65 percent between February and March, making for a reduction of 0.93 percent.  Which must be worrisome to folks in Redmond, since that’s a dramatic dip.

    Firefox’s makers, meanwhile, can remain relatively pleased.  Firefox’s share increased by 0.29 percent heading from February into March, landing it at 24.52 percent.  So it’s still accumulating gains, bit by bit.

  • Microsoft Presents European Web Browser Choice Screen

    Starting sometime around the first of March, Microsoft is going to give Europeans an obvious chance to pick something other than Internet Explorer as their Web browser.  And starting today, Microsoft’s given the whole world a chance to see what its "Web browser choice screen" looks like.

    This ballot screen has been in the works for a long time.  The process began when European regulators objected to Windows and Internet Explorer being bundled together.  Then, a proposal that would have put all of the different browser choices in alphabetical order was vetoed.

    Eventually, all of the parties agreed upon displaying the browser’s names in a random order.

    Now tests are set to begin next week in Belgium, France, and the U.K., with a full-scale rollout planned for early March.  The browser choice screen software will reach people via Windows Update, and should (except for the order of the browsers) resemble the picture below.

    Microsoft seemed rather pleased to announce that all of this is taking place ahead of the European Commission’s schedule.  We’re just very curious to see what Internet Explorer’s market share will look like come April.

  • Quantcast Finds Chrome, Firefox Have Trouble At Home

    Here are a couple odd facts for you: compared to people everywhere else, folks in North America dislike Chrome.  And individuals who live in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada are unusually big fans of Internet Explorer.  That’s what new Quantcast data implies, anyway.

    Quantcast, which measures and profiles audiences all over the world for advertisers, recently released some statistics concerning browsers’ market shares.  The stats addressed usage in seven different geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America.

    It turns out that Chrome is least successful in North America.  Firefox has also failed to catch on here the way it has everywhere else, and somehow, North America remains Internet Explorer’s best stronghold.

    Now for the flip side of things.  According to Quantcast, Chrome actually does best in South America.  Also, Europe is where Firefox has won the largest market share, and where Internet Explorer has cornered the smallest.

    Confused?  Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote, "At the very least it means that we North Americans should remember where we stand in terms of online sophistication by our mainstream population, relative to some other places in the world."

  • Internet Explorer Losing its Luster in Europe?

    According to data released by the AT Internet Institute, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has fallen to under 60% of visits in Europe. The firm suggests that with widely publicized news of a major security flaw and moves being made by competing browsers, IE’s fall may not be reversed in the very near future.

    "Out of the 23 countries that were studied, Internet Explorer experienced the largest decline in visit shares for websites in Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece and Czech Republic," the firm notes.

    Web Browsers in Europe

    Web Browsers in Europe

    Additional findings from the AT Internet Institute include: 

    – Google Chrome exceeded 4% of visit shares with a gain of 2 points in 6 months

    – attained 29.4% of traffic to a website in a European country in December 2009

    – gained almost 1 point and exceeded 5% of visit shares

    – On average 2.3% of visits to a European website through Opera in December 2009 compared to 2.2% in June 2009.

    "It is interesting to note that the growth of Safari coincided with the growth of Google Chrome," says the firm. "Based on the same engine Webkit, would Google Chrome indirectly encourage the use of Safari?"

    Last week, Mozilla launched the latest version of Firefox, and Google has just released the latest version of Chrome for Windows, complete with extensions and Bookmark Sync.

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