Chrome browser still gaining users

Internet Explorer drops below 60% usage

4 May 2010 11:17 GMT / By Duncan Geere

Sit up, browser statistics enthusiasts - this one's for you. NetApplications has issued its monthly report on the to-ings and fro-ings of the browser market, and found that Chrome is still slowly bubbling upwards while Internet Explorer has plunged below the 60% marker.

At the end of April, Chrome accounted for 6.7% of visits to all the sites that NetApplications uses to generate its statistics. That's a rise of 0.6% of marketshare - the biggest seen by any browser this month, and also the biggest since Google launched Chrome back in September 2008.

Firefox's marketshare has stagnated just shy of 25%, rising 0.07% in April to 24.6%, but Internet Explorer was the biggest loser this month - plummeting 0.7% to 59.95% - the first time in more than 10 years that Microsoft's browser has fallen below the 60% marker, and a sign that IE's dominance is being eroded.

Safari remained at 4.7%, and Opera shrank a little down to 2.3%.

Via: computerworld.com

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