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Internet Explorer: Now Only 86 Pct Dominant

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A new survey from NetApplications monitoring August 2005 Web traffic from more than 40,000 Hitslink.com monitored Web sites found that Internet Explorer’s dominance of the Web browser field continues to erode, as competitors such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, and Mac OS X’s Safari gain popularity.

Of course, losing dominance is all relative for Internet Explorer: MSIE still accounted for 86.3 percent—nearly seven-eighths—of Web usage monitored in the study. But Microsoft’s browser luxuriated in a 92.3 percent share of Web traffic in October 2004.

Firefox usage moved up a quarter point in August 2005 after a slump in July, and Mac OS X’s Safari also saw a small increase in usage. However, the biggest increase was shown by Netscape, which increased from 1.5 percent to 2.02 percent during August.

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