A History of Browser Usage

History of Browser Usage History 1992 - 2010 1992 1994 1995 1996 September 1996 Netscape releases Navigator. Navigator reaches 86% for browser market share and Microsoft begins integrating the browser with its OS. Vs. UNIX Internet Explorer is released starting the battle for the web browser market known as the The MidasWWW browser is released by Tony Johnson allowing files to be viewed on the web from Unix and VMS. 86% "browser wars." Opera is released. market share 1998 2002 2003 2004 June 2006 Netscape begins to open source its product, starting Mozilla. IE achieves a peak market share of over 92%. It has UINNESS been on a steady decline since then. Later in the year, Netscape is purchased by AOL. RECOR A Guinness World Record is set when Firefox 3 is  AOL 92% released and receives over 8 million downloads on day 1 Firefox is released. Safari is released. market share October 2006 2008 2009 2010 IE 7 is released for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. IE 8 is released for Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Google announces Chrome 5.0, the first stable release to support all three platforms. Chrome 5.0 is also the first version to have bookmark synchronization. Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows XP. Firefox 3.5 is also released. It is the first version to include multi-touch trackpad support. хр 5.0 Google Chrome is released. World Wide Market Share by Browser Q2 2011 54.4% 2003 02 2010 60% IE 6 introduced pop-up blocker as well as a tool for clearing browsing history. Q2 2009 68.1% 2006 76.2% Explorer 0% 50% 100% Q2 2011 21.7% 10.24.2006 Q2 2010 24.2% Firefox establishes tabbed browsing, inline spell check, session restoration after browser crash and search suggestions for Google & Yahoo! Q2 2009 23% 02 2008 18.2% 0% 50% 100% Firefox Q2 2011 12.5% Q2 2010 7% Q2 2009 D 2.1% Q2 2008 0% Chrome 0% 50% 100% Q2 2011 7.3% Q2 2010 4.8% Q2 2009| 3.7% Q2 2008 D2.7% Safari 0% 50% 100% Q2 2011 2006 Q2 2010 2.3% Opera version 9.1 introduced fraud protection using technology from a digital certificate provider company called GeoTrust. Q2 2009 D 2.1% Q2 2008 2% Opera 0% 50% 100% 2009 D.8% 1995 2008 .5% Netscape mail was added making navigator the first to offer a mail & browser package. 2007 .7% 2006 .5% Navigator 0% 50% 100% Most Used Web Browsers by Country - July 2011 Internet Explorer Firefox Google Chrome Opera Median Usage Share for Browsers - June 2011 53% 22% 13% 8% 5% 3% Internet Firefox Chrome Safari Mobile Opera Explorer y http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Historical_usage_share http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_%28web_browser%29#Release_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_chrome#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox R ReviverSoft