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The Register and browser share

The Register: approximately 25 per cent of readers access our site using non-Microsoft browsers (mentioned in passing in an article on Alexa). Now for some pure speculation. I can’t imagine that this percentage was nearly as impressive 6 to 8 months ago, simply because 6 to 8 months ago there weren’t really that many serious alternatives to IE—Mozilla was still in beta and most of the other Gecko engine browsers were still pretty shakey. With Mozilla past 1.0 and some great Gecko browsers being built on top of it (Chimera at al) IE is no longer necessarily the best choice. I just wish I had access to some ’real’ statistics to further understand the ways in which the browser market is changing.

Posted 3rd August 2002 at 10:27 am

This is The Register and browser share by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd August 2002.

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4 comments

  1. Of course the Register has a very techie audience (who are far more likely to be aware of alternatives to IE, use Linux/other OS' which don't have access to IE or be too paranoid to browse with something with that many security holes). Still, it's an interesting statistic.

    Simon - 3rd August 2002 09:31 - #

  2. Yeah I agree. Infact, if you run a site aimed directly at a techie audience, aiming at lower browsers than say, Version 5, is a rather pointless exercise imo... Which was what made the newest SitePoint frontpage http://www.sitepoint.com design seem a bit silly, as its been coded to be backwards compatible to NS4. I think saying IE has security holes is a bit unfair; its Outlook which has the main problems, although with the latest patch (which merely just clamps down the entire scripting engine so that you can't run any .exe or .vbs files, even if you know what your doing!)

    Elmo - 3rd August 2002 13:20 - #

  3. For a better view on Browser share (measured accros sites of ALL interests), check out www.fxcounters.com

    Mike - 19th February 2005 02:05 - #

  4. have do i get google as my browser.

    Efrain Cantu - 26th February 2005 02:14 - #

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