Web Browsers

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:31:07 +0000

On April 21, 1993, Marc Andreessen, a computing student, perhaps unintentionally kick-started the popularization of the internet by creating a browser called Mosaic 1.0. Tim Berners-Le, the inventor of the World Wide Web, popularly known as www, had already developed a browser, but Mosaic was the first to work in a fully graphical way.

Following the success of Mosaic, Andreessen founded Netscape in 1994. By distributing an improved version of Mosaic, named Netscape Navigator, the company came to dominate the browser market.

Internet Explorer has less than 50% of the market

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:47:18 +0000

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser had less than 50% market share in September, recording the biggest decline in its history. According to market analysis company StatCounter, global browser usage was 49.87%, a much lower figure compared with when the program won the battle against Netscape in the 90s, capturing most of the market.

StatCounter also says that Mozilla’s Firefox, in second place, has 31.5% of the browser market, while Google’s Chrome is third, with 11.54%. However, the program has tripled its usage since the same period last year. According to a report from the Softpedia website, Chrome is the fastest-growing browser. The rest of the market is divided among browsers with smaller shares, such as Opera and Apple’s Safari.

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Web Browsers

Internet Explorer has less than 50% of the market