Chrome Gains Market Share, IE Slips a Tick
Chrome Gains Market Share, IE Slips a Tick
Posted 10/01/2010 at 9:28am
| by Paul Lilly
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The latest browser market share statistics are out from Web analytics firm Net Applications, and of all the browsers, only Google's Chrome made any kind of notable gain.
Chrome bumped up its position from 7.52 percent in August to nearly 8 percent in September, which is more than twice the market share it held one year ago.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer continued to slip, dropping from 60.40 percent to 59.65 percent in that same time frame. Both Firefox and Opera held steady by increasing their share a nominal 0.03 and 0.02 percent, respectively, while Apple's Safari browser continued its slow but steady climb, rising from 5.16 percent to 5.27 percent.
Released in the middle of September, Microsoft's IE9 Beta accounted for 0.25 percent of browser usage in the last two weeks of the month.
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JeffDenver
October 01, 2010 at 2:21pm
I was really reluctant to try Chrome, but I am glad I did. I cant completely abandon IE as much as I would like to (there are some sites that Chrome and Firefox just cant handle, like Active X sites). But Chrome is my new primary browser. The interface may seem weird at first, but once I got used to it I found it was way easier to use than either Firefox or IE. And of course it is lightning fast when it comes to rendering web pages as well.
I use Chrome as my primary browser switching to IE only when I absolutely have to. The only thing I use Firefox for at all is saving Youtube videos as files (Firefox does have a vast library of plugins compared to Chrome). Besides that, Chrome has effectively supplanted Firefox completely for my browsing needs.
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