The worlds most popular web browser

This week our team have been looking into web browsers and in particular which is the most popular browser worldwide. The big names include Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera.

There was a time when Mozilla Firefox looked as if it would take over the market share until September 2008 when Google released Chrome. Since its release Chrome has gone from strength to strength and reports now show as of May 2012 Google Chrome is now the most popular web browser used worldwide after just  taking the lead from Internet Explorer.

Our graph below shows the popularity of web browsers used worldwide over the past 12 months

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Which web browser do you use? and why? What are your predictions for the future?
All comments welcome.

What is, and Why a Favicon?

A favicon is a small icon which is a visual link or a connection to your webpage or website etc.

It is a small image, and shown in your browser bar or your bookmark area.

Because it is so small it is best to keep it very simple, maybe use your initial or a simple logo, but what it actually does is give your site a brand and get you a more prominent place in the users bookmark section and allow you to be located easier when you have multiple web pages open.

To add one is very simple, just add the following code between your head tags to link to your .ico image file.

<link rel='icon' href='Path_To_File/favicon.ico' type='image/x-icon' />
<link rel='shortcut icon' href='Path_To_File/favicon.ico' type='image/x-icon' />

For any help with creating your .ico file contact us at Mediacityway.com anytime.

Fastest Web Browser

The Web Browser Market share is forever changing so we took the time to research into which web browser was the fastest, after all nobody wants to wait longer than they need to for a webpage to load.

In our discoveries we noticed that the computers operating system played a major role in finding the fastest web browser. To simplify our findings we have split the results into Windows and Mac.

The top 10 fastest web browsers for Windows:

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The top 10 fastest web browsers for Apple Mac:

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Graphs sourced from blog.newrelic.com

Are you using the fastest web browser? Or do you have a personal preference?