Windows 10: Internet Explorer 11 now most used web browser in World

Safari 5.1.7 is ancient. Almost 3 years old. Apple officially discontinued it a long time ago. Current Safari is 8.something I think. That thing is probably so full of security holes, it would be swiss cheese.

Nobody should be using that, not even developers... Chrome will give you a much better representation than this will as the Webkit versions will be much closer.

 

Safari 5.1.7 is ancient. Almost 3 years old. Apple officially discontinued it a long time ago. Current Safari is 8.something I think. That thing is probably so full of security holes, it would be swiss cheese.

Nobody should be using that, not even developers... Chrome will give you a much better representation than this will as the Webkit versions will be much closer. I didn't say it was a good idea. *Biggrin

I wouldn't install any Apple software on a Windows PC, given Apple's track record with QuickTime and Safari issues.

I had to install Safari on some PCs where I was working (~6 years ago).

I definitely haven't installed it on my PC.
I've assumed that Chrome would be close enough because of Webkit (as you have suggested). *Smile

However just because something is a bad idea, it doesn't mean that people aren't doing it.

 

Safari 5.1.7 is ancient. Almost 3 years old. Apple officially discontinued it a long time ago. Current Safari is 8.something I think. That thing is probably so full of security holes, it would be swiss cheese.

Nobody should be using that, not even developers... Chrome will give you a much better representation than this will as the Webkit versions will be much closer. What has WebKit to do with this? Chrome used WebKit rendering engine until version 27, starting with version 28 it has used Blink.

 

Google chrome version that I am using is 38.0.2125.111 m
chrome://chrome/
chrome://credits/
(if you are using Chrome)
Google Chrome is made possible by the Chromium open source project and other open source software.

There is no blink in the Credits. There is webkit though

WebKit
WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications

 

What get me is why people use Google Chrome, if you are logged in to google and/or have apps link to your account they know who you are and where you go unless you go to https sites. It is possible to disable all this to prevent tracking but it is a pain. I use Seamonkey for example.

 

It never stops amazing me how little facts geeks need to be sure they are right.

WebKit - Wikipedia:

Google Chrome - Wikipedia:

Blink (web engine) - Wikipedia:

Although a fork of WebKit, the deveklopers make it quite clear Blink is not based on WebKit. It has its origins in one component of of WebKit, the WebCore, but each new version of Chrome brings it further from its origins.

I repeat: Chrome is not using Webkit rendering engine, has not used since version 27.

 

History over the past 15 years.

 

NB: This is my opinion!

I am 63 years old, and I couldn't give whoot if Google is spying on me or not. I have been using Chrome for so long, I couldn't tell you when I made the change, but I know I was using some iteration of Netscape if that helps. I keep running into posts where the user posts like he is some type of CIA agent, and has secrets that must be protected at all costs!! Please, Google does not want, nor need whatever you have on your drives. Now the NSA is another story, best saved for another day!!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!! *Wink

 

Thank you *Smile for calling me a Geek Kari, but I am not that smart. You might be right. I have the latest standard release version in Windows 10 and Windows 7. However, chrome still list in the credits that it uses webkit. Then the developers need to get on that to remove webkit and replace it with blink if you are correct. I call that a bug. There might be others in the credits that no longer in use, that also needs to be removed. Sorry for the long post.


Here is a list of credits from Google Chrome install.

David M. Gay's floating point routines
dynamic annotations
Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)
Paul Hsieh's SuperFastHash
google-glog's symbolization library
valgrind
xdg-mime
xdg-user-dirs
Breakpad, An open-source multi-platform crash reporting system
BSDiff
XZ Utils
Google code support upload script
ChromeVox
mock4js
Mozilla Personal Security Manager
Network Security Services (NSS)
native client
fancy_urllib
newlib-extras
pthreads-win32
open-vcdiff
WebKit
Accessibility Audit library, from Accessibility Developer Tools
Android Crazy Linker
etc1
Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine
Darwin
Apple sample code
Android
Binary-, RedBlack- and AVL-Trees in Python and Cython
boringssl
Brotli
bspatch
Google Cache Invalidation API
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that
Compact Language Detection
Compact Language Detection 2
Closure compiler
codesighs
colorama
d3
devscripts
dom-distiller-js
Expat XML Parser
eyesfree
ffmpeg
fips181
flac
Flot Javascript/JQuery library for creating graphs
Google Toolbox for Mac
GIMP Toolkit
harfbuzz-ng
hunspell
hunspell dictionaries
Hardware Composer Plus
IAccessible2 COM interfaces for accessibility
iccjpeg
icu
ISimpleDOM COM interfaces for accessibility
jsoncpp
google-jstemplate
Khronos header files
launchpad-translations
LCOV - the LTP GCOV extension
LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store
NVidia Control X Extension Library
The library to input, validate, and display addresses.
libcxx
libcxxabi
libevent
libexif
libjingle
libjpeg
libjpeg-turbo
Braille Translation Library
International Phone Number Library
libpng
libsrtp
libusbx
libva
libvpx
WebM container parser and writer.
WebP image encoder/decoder
libxml
libxslt
libyuv
LZMA SDK
mach_override
markdown, a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers
mesa
modp base64 decoder
NSBezierPath additions from Sean Patrick O'Brien
Mozc Japanese Input Method Editor
Cocoa extension code from Camino
mt19937ar
Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI)
ocmock
OpenMAX DL
openssl
opus
OTS (OpenType Sanitizer)
PDFium
PLY (Python Lex-Yacc)
Polymer
Polymer
powergadget_lib
Protocol Buffers
Python FTP server library
mock
Quick Color Management System
re2 - an efficient, principled regular expression library
readability
google-safe-browsing
sfntly
simplejson
skia
SMHasher
Snappy: A fast compressor/decompressor
Speech Dispatcher
speex
sqlite
Sudden Motion Sensor library
SwiftShader software renderer.
Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG)
talloc
tcmalloc
tlslite
The USB ID Repository
usrsctp
Webdriver
WebRTC
webtreemap
SHA1 for Windows toolchain that is built from external sources.
The Windows Installer XML (WiX)
wtl
x86inc
yasm
zlib
jqTree
WebRTC sample code
pySerial
url_parse
V8 JavaScript Engine
Strongtalk
fdlibm

 

Outdated credits do not change facts.

 

That exactly my point, there shouldn't be outdated credits period. *Smile

 

Blink is a fork of WebKit, which removes features they weren't using. It's still going to render a lot closer to current Safari than Safari 5.1.7 for Windows does.

My guess is that most changes that are not deprecating WebKit features that Chrome didn't use are probably back ported to WebKit anyways, so they are likely still very close in terms of general rendering functionality.

 

Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome

This should explain it. Article is a little old though.

Because Blink is a fork, they still have to give credit to webkit according to gpl.

 

I use Chrome almost exclusively, and yes they can track you, as all browsers do. There are add-ons that can block and VPNs can obscure it also, so that you can not be tracked.

But, I use Chrome because I use a number of the available apps, plus, and (silly me) I also like to be able to theme my browser. I even designed my own. So, I have no problems, with it.

I use Firefox, to do things Chrome doesn't offer.

And lastly, I use IE to usually do my online installs. Though Chrome has improved this function.

 

This one shows Safari with 15.2%. Wow. Safari is only available for MacOS if it's only counting desktop browsers (which it seems to be), and MacOS only accounts for about 7% of the market share. How, exactly does MacOS then have more than 2x the browser share than they have computers?

If the numbers include mobile, then that would include iOS and MacOS, but then those numbers would also include Android. And MacOS + iOS is far less than than 15% of the installed base of Android alone, much less Android + everything else that might be running Chrome (or some version of it). So those numbers, just based on the Safari stats are highly suspect.

First.. w3schools? Seriously? Apart from the fact that they're the worst joke on the internet... ( see W3Fools ? Better web education for all ), w3schools is again very tech heavy... mostly visited by web developers which are going to be very chrome and firefox heavy. The bias is well known. In fact, look at the huge difference between safari usage in the two sites.. 15.2 vs 3.6, and chrome is almost 60% vs 40%.

Now, Statcounter is a completely apples to oranges comparison. Statcounters stats are based on page views, not on market share. In other words, they base their stats on which browsers view the most pages and do not remove duplicate ip's or try to find unique visitors.

In theory, users of chrome should view just as many pages as users of IE, but in practice we really don't know if that's the case.. since chrome users tend to be more technical, they may spend much more time surfing... or they may just visit a lot more pages than other people on a daily basis.. it's hard to tell. Their justification is that they count which browsers are the most USED, not the ones that have the most market share, and they also count users who use more than one browser.

Regardless, I've seen the browser statistics for a lot of sites, some of them quite large (Millions of dollars in revenue per day), and I've never once seen one in which chrome or any other browser came even close to surpassing IE in usage on any site I've monitored. So, simply put.. My own personal experience agrees with the net applications data, and not with the others. NetMarketShare data is also similar... Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems and search engines | NetMarketShare We thank you for the analysis, which only brings us back to my original statement

...it all depends on the spin-reporters