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Chrome and others nibble away IE usage

Source: Webware.com

Nov 02, 2009

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Google's Chrome is still the fourth-place browser in terms of usage, but it gained more than others in October when it comes to stealing usage away from the dominant Internet Explorer.

According to Net Applications' browser usage share statistics, Chrome gained from 3.2 percent to 3.6 percent from September 2009 to October. The company bases its statistics on visits to a global network of 40,000 Web sites, dusted with some statistical processing.

Next was Mozilla's Firefox, which rose from 23.8 percent to 24.1 percent. Apple's Safari rose from 4.2 percent to 4.4 percent. Opera was essentially flat at 2.2 percent.

The big loser was IE, which dropped from 65.7 percent to 64.6 percent, according to the statistics.

Net Applications' September 2009 browser usage share statistics.

(Credit:
Net Applications)

Net Applications' October 2009 browser usage share statistics.

(Credit:
Net Applications)

Chrome's early gains are notable--the software has been publicly available for 14 months--but Google's challenge in spreading the software will gradually shift as g

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