Microsoft’s IE losing market share; Chrome and Firefox gain

Microsoft’s IE losing market share; Chrome and Firefox gainLatest data put forward by Net Applications on Monday, suggests that
last month saw market share of Internet Explorer fall down as Mozilla's
Firefox, Google's Chrome, and Apple's Safari experienced small gains.

The data also said that the top spot was held by Microsoft's IE, with
“67.55 percent of the browser market, though that was down .06 percent
from last month and down 7.92 percent from the same time last year.”

The number two spot was held by Firefox with 21.53 percent market share
– up .19 percent from December and up 4.55 percent from last year.

“Safari, Chrome, and Opera rounded out the top five with 8.29 percent,
1.12 percent, and .70 percent of the market, respectively,” the report
said.

In September, Search engine major Google launched its Chrome browser
and snapped up about .78 percent of the market. Though it was able to
beat Opera out of the number four spot, but Chrome has grown only a
little since its debut.

Following the launch of 3.0, Firefox jumped four percentage points last
July and arrived at the 20 percent threshold in November.

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