For the year positions Safari and Internet Explorer strengthened, Firefox and Chrome – loose

Research firm Net Applications released a report on the distribution of the rating of desktop operating systems among users of the World Wide Web. According to analyst reports, At the end of last year, the share of Internet Explorer has increased by 3% to 54.8%. Safari positions also increased from 5% at the end of 2011 to 5.2% in December 2012.

According to analysts, the situation browsers Microsoft and Apple strengthened by the software from the company Mozilla. Firefox for one year lost nearly 2%, in late 2012, this browser has been set to one-fifth of a desktop computer connected to the Internet (19.8%).

Position other browsers have changed slightly. Third place belongs to Chrome. This browser, recall, journalists Compuware Announcing  the fastest on the planet , and the company Tom's Hardware bestowed him with the  best Internet browser . Be that as it may, the last year the share of Chrome decreased from 19.1% to 18%. Opera figure hovers around 1.7%.

If we compare the performance of browsers December from November, the first thing noticeable significant decline of interest in Firefox. In just a month, his popularity declined by 0.6%, the share of the browser the "dip" below the psychological mark of 20%. Chrome users increased by 0.8%.

Tests of Chrome 17, Opera 11, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9 and Safari 5

Just five days ago by ZDNet with Techmeme conducted performance tests of the latest versions of browsers: Chrome 17, Opera 11, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9 and Safari 5. Test results, as stressed by ZDNet, should not be a deciding factor when choosing a browser, but the results ever say that at the present time is popular in the market and why.

Tests were performed on a computer with the data characteristics:

• Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2,5 GHz / 6MB L2 Cache
• Memory: 4 GB
• Graphics Card: Integrated Nvidia GTX 260 with 896 MB of memory

Please note that not all tests, bigger is better. first test: SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test prepared by Mozilla and computes only the processing speed of Java scripts on the page in the interaction with the browser. What is less than the value of this test, the better browser get the job done.

Second test: V8 Benchmark
test set Google to improve its V8 engine when processing scripts Java. What greater value, the higher the performance of the browser.

The third test: Peacekeeper Benchmark
Test was created by FutureMark and calculates the efficiency of your browser when playing animation, video, text and site navigation. Moreover, this test also calculates the speed of the browser with HTML5 standard. What is more the result of the higher performance of the browser.

Fourth Test: Kraken Benchmark
test has been developed Mozilla, to assess and compare the performance of their browser Firefox, as well as all the other built on a similar engine. What is less than the values ​​of the test, the higher the current playback speed and load Java scripts in your browser for the initial connection.

Conclusion:

• Chrome 17: The three first place - an absolute leader.
• Firefox 10: three second places - confident leader.
• 5 Safari and Opera 11: Middle leaders.
• Internet Explorer 9: In spite of first place in the test SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, an absolute outsider.

What browser to use - you decide, most importantly, do not forget that the configuration of your computer - not unimportant factor. In the case of ZDNet, PC to test the configuration and reflects the above average is a little outdated, and possibly with its updating, these tests give a very different picture.