EUROPE/SPAIN (Agencies) The larger part of the Internet navigation pie is split up among two giants, Mozilla Firefox (38.11%) and Internet Explorer (32,52%), which together have grabbed over 75% of the market. The remaining percentage pretty much belongs to Google's Chrome (14.58%), while Opera and Safari get the crumbs. That's in Europe -and the Antarctic, which is more of a curiosity than anything significant. The trend reflects the rest of the world, though, especially given that the difference between the giants is quite small. Internet Explorer (IE to its friends) is still ahead worldwide, though it gave away 8.31% of its throne. Still, the Microsoft's IE gets to keep 46.94% of navigators (we used to call them surfers but understand that the term is out of fashion...). Mr Gates's company is followed by Firefox, whose share, 30.76%, hardly moved at all last year. Google's Chrome is largely responsible for that, having jumped from 5.78% of market share at the start of 2010, to 14.58 % at the end.>
In Spain, IE is still ahead, with almost half the market, though it lost a little over 5% through 2010. Firefox is behind with 29.43% at the end of the year (it started with 32.7%), followed by Chrome, whose share rose from about 7% to 16% over the twelve months. Safari stayed close to its 3.67% through the year, an Opera doesn't even have 1% of the Spanish market.
In conclusion, European navigation follows the trends in the rest of the world, and Spain, as is so often the case, is different because we don't.
How does this affect you, Dear Reader, as you sit at your computer reading this? It doesn't much at all. It is a matter of preference, a very subliminal choice. Each of the navigators has its pros and cons, but we urge you to try out one you don't normally use - unless you don't feel like getting out of your comfort zone...
Here at CampoPulse we mostly use Firefox, mainly because we're used to it. But we have tried Chrome, which we also use for certain things because it offers more protection and is often faster. We don't use Internet Explorer at all but that may be because we hold resentments at Microsoft (they charge for things like MS Office now, which used to come free with the package of a new computer purchase, for instance) - or because we are quite cozy in our own comfort zone, thank you very much.
In Spain, IE is still ahead, with almost half the market, though it lost a little over 5% through 2010. Firefox is behind with 29.43% at the end of the year (it started with 32.7%), followed by Chrome, whose share rose from about 7% to 16% over the twelve months. Safari stayed close to its 3.67% through the year, an Opera doesn't even have 1% of the Spanish market.
In conclusion, European navigation follows the trends in the rest of the world, and Spain, as is so often the case, is different because we don't.
How does this affect you, Dear Reader, as you sit at your computer reading this? It doesn't much at all. It is a matter of preference, a very subliminal choice. Each of the navigators has its pros and cons, but we urge you to try out one you don't normally use - unless you don't feel like getting out of your comfort zone...
Here at CampoPulse we mostly use Firefox, mainly because we're used to it. But we have tried Chrome, which we also use for certain things because it offers more protection and is often faster. We don't use Internet Explorer at all but that may be because we hold resentments at Microsoft (they charge for things like MS Office now, which used to come free with the package of a new computer purchase, for instance) - or because we are quite cozy in our own comfort zone, thank you very much.
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