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I noticed IE drop below 50% last spring on http://flashcarddb.com

It dropped from 50.17% in March to 49.05% in April, continuing to steadily decrease since then.

My traffic is about 70% North American. I have many students. Macintosh is a 20% slice of my OS pie and Safari isn't too far behind Firefox in browser share.

September => IE: 48%, Firefox: 24%, Safari: 16%, Chrome: 10%

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Interesting stat tidbit:

Browser stats for Mac users only:

Safari: 75%, Firefox: 20.2%, Chrome: 4.5%

That makes sense seeing as Safari is the default browser on ever brand new Mac and Google Chrome has only been available on the Mac for a year.

On top of that, Mac users have less need to even think about what browser they use because IE isn't the default, which weights things disproportionately in Safari's favor. Safari is "good enough."

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