Safari 4 Boosts Apple's Market Share

Apple’s release of its Safari 4 beta has helped push it beyond the 10 per cent threshold for the first time. Apple has topped the ten per cent mark for worldwide browser market share following the release of it's latest Safari beta.

Overall market share among the top five dominant browsers remained largely stable through February, according to Net Applications.
 

Internet Explorer (IE) retained its dominant position last month, as its average browser share dropped marginally from 68.18 to 68.17 per cent.

Mozilla‘s Firefox gained 0.21 per cent to achieve a 21.96 per cent share, and Google's Chrome grew 0.03 per cent to 1.16 per cent. Opera grew from 0.68 to 0.70 per cent of the market.

But the main change came with Apple’s Safari, after the version 4 beta of the browser was released last week.

The beta release helped push Apple’s browser market share to 10.91 per cent, or 1.88 per cent more than the same time in the week before its release. Last month, it was 9.04 per cent.