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Analysis: Safari 4 lifts Apple above 10% browser market share
Analysis: Safari 4 lifts Apple above 10% browser market share
Analysis – February turned out to be the month of the beta browsers, in a more significant way than we have seen in any other month before. While overall market shares remained relatively stable for the top 5 of browser developers, there were major shifts in beta browser market share. Microsoft ...
Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad? | E-mail and Internet | Editors' Notes
macworld.com — The address bar, toolbar buttons, search field, and bookmarks bar now appear within each tab, rather than... at the top of the Safari window. This makes logical sense, since the functions these items perform are specific to the currently-visible tab, ... (more) Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad? | E-mail and Internet | ...
★ Observations, Complaints, Quibbles, and Suggestions Regarding the Safari 4 Public Beta ...
daringfireball.net — Performance The Safari 4 public beta is faster than Safari 3 and every other browser available for... the Mac. ( CNet’s Crave backs up Apple’s claim that Safari 4 is the fastest browser available for Windows as well.) One thing to keep in ... (more) ★ Observations, Complaints, Quibbles, and Suggestions ...
Apple Heats Up The Browser Wars
forbes.com — Just when you thought the browser wars couldn't get any weirder, here comes Steve Jobs rumbling onto... the scene like the Stay Puft Marshmallow man tromping over buildings in downtown Manhattan. If last year's release of Safari for Windows seemed like ... (more) Apple Heats Up The Browser Wars
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Net Applications: Safari 4 Public Beta release propels Apple past 10% in browser share
MacDailyNews — ... 11 million. [Safari 4 Public Beta was released last Tuesday, February 24, 2009.]" Gruener reports, "If we try to make a prediction in Microsoft’s favor - if we exclude IE8 beta and assume that these users will become Internet Explorer users and also assume that current IE5 and IE4 users will switch to IE8, then there is at least 17% of the browser market share up for grabs, which translates into just about 25% of all Internet Explorer users Microsoft has at this time." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "sketchtrain" for the heads up.] ...

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