14 DAY TRIAL // The web browser market hasn't seen any huge changes in August, but some trends are accelerating. For example, Firefox lost almost half of a percent point in the last month alone, the biggest drop since the start of the year.
Meanwhile, Google Chrome saw a bigger rise than usual, gaining almost one percent point, according to Net Applications numbers. Elsewhere, Internet Explorer is still losing users and Safari saw a decent uptick too.
Firefox has been hovering around the same market share number for many months now. It hasn't been able to convince any new users, but it hasn't lost its loyal following either.
Last month though, Firefox share went from 21.47 percent to 21.03 percent, the second biggest drop this year. It lost one percent point in January, but has managed to stabilize the trend since.
Internet Explorer continued to lose market share, it dropped from 52.72 percent to 51.59 percent, about the same amount it's been losing for the past several months now.
Google Chrome on the other hand, which had slowed down for the past couple of months, saw a bigger surge of new users than usual, going from 13.49 percent of the market to 14.46 percent.
The trends have been the same for many months now and there's little indication that things will change. More and more people are turning to Google Chrome as an alternative to Internet Explorer and Firefox.
However, Mozilla has now switched to a rapid release cycle and is pushing out new Firefox versions every six weeks, same as Google Chrome. With the change, new features and improvements make it to users significantly faster than before and users may once again turn to Firefox, even coming from Chrome, if they start to see bigger improvements on a regular basis.