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Between February and March, Internet Explorer dropped 0.85 percentage points after gaining share the previous month. Firefox, meanwhile, edged forward a mere 0.06 percentage points. Chrome gained 0.64 percentage points, making it last month's biggest winner. Safari was up 0.25 percentage points and Opera didn't move at all.
At 55.92 percent, Internet Explorer has once again hit a new low. This latest drop comes despite the release of IE9. Speaking of which, IE9 last month captured a decent 1.04 percent. IE8 lost 0.54 percentage points, but it's still the world's most popular browser. IE7 fell 0.18 percentage points and IE6 fell 0.36 percentage points. We're hoping that IE6 will fall below the 10 percent mark in the next few months.
At 21.80 percent, Firefox is still below the peak it reached last year (24.72 percent). This month we will see how the new version affects the browser's overall market share. Speaking of which, Firefox 4 last month captured a decent 1.68 percent. Firefox 3.6 lost 0.64 percentage points and Firefox 3.5 lost 0.22 percentage points.
At 11.57 percent, Chrome has hit a new high. The browser's built-in updating system is working wonders for Google. Chrome 10 gained 6.38 percentage points last month. Chrome 9 fell 4.07 percentage points. Chrome 8 dropped 1.86 percentage points. The result is that Chrome 10, the latest stable version, already has the largest market share for Chrome.
The data is courtesy of Net Applications. For next month, I'll try to get data from TechSpot itself as well.
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spiderman1957 said:
Chrome rules I don't understand why some people have it crash on them. I got to be doing something right I guess. I've been using Chrome since August 2010 never have I had it crash but I do take care to make sure everything is set correctly.
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On Mac, it's mostly between Safari, Chrome and FireFox. I use Camino (http://caminobrowser.org/), but that's basically an OS X front end for FF minus the plugins and other stuff that can bog down FF.
Safari's interface has become to gimmicky for my liking.
Chrome is nice, as long as you feel comfortable providing Google with every last detail of your online behavior. Personally, I'll pass.
The choice, imo anyway, is pretty simple.
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IE 9 is going to gain some back.
http://www.rhyous.com/2011/04/02/adding-this-post-from-inter
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DarkCobra said:
Chrome is the "fastest" but I find Firefox the most "useful" because of the rich tools and add-on's. However, I'm not liking the omission of the status bar in FF4. A lot of add-on's made good use of it. Also, program authors are not updating to the latest version as rapidly as they once did. IE got faster but I'm afraid it's glory days are gone and it will continue to hemorrhage users. IE can brag about basically nothing anymore. Chrome is the speed king and FF the feature king.
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Make your choice
Browsers are a commodity, they are all very similar, if one has a great feature the other will soon copy it, so pick which ever browser(s) you like and enjoy it.
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T77 said:
I'm glad opera wasn't included in "other".....
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