Chrome Again Beats Firefox in Browser Gain Race

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Google's Chrome continued its surge in browser share last month by claiming nearly all of Internet Explorer's losses, a Web metrics company said.

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Microsoft's browser share dips below 60 percent

Internet Explorer's market share dipped again in April, falling below 60 percent as Chrome and Firefox gained.

Microsoft's browser market share continued to fall in April, with Internet Explorer now in use for fewer than three in five Web connections.

IE's share of the market in April was 59.95, down from 60.65 percent in March, according to Net Applications. Google's Chrome grabbed the lion's share of that, increasing to 6.73 percent from 6.13 percent, while Firefox also gained nearly a tenth of a percentage point, to finish April with 24.59 percent.

The decline for IE at the expense of Google and Mozilla is the continuation of several years of market share losses for Microsoft. In May 2008, Microsoft had 75.94 percent of the market, while Firefox had 18.3 percent and Google's Chrome wasn't even out yet.

Even a year ago, Microsoft's market share was nearly 8 percentage points higher. Since then, Google, Mozilla, and Apple have all further eroded Internet Explorer's share of the market.

For some time now, Microsoft has said it hopes to better compete in the browser market. At the Mix 2010 event in March, Microsoft released a technical preview for Internet Explorer 9, which will user a Windows PC's graphics horsespower to aid graphics and text rendering. In recent days, though, much of the attention on IE9 has been around Microsoft's announcement that the browser's built-in HTML 5 video support will be limited to the H.264 codec.

Microsoft IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch responded to criticism of that decision in a blog post on Monday, saying that H.264 offers a "more certain" path than other formats.

"Relative to alternatives, H.264 maintains strong hardware support in PCs and mobile devices as well as a breadth of implementation in consumer electronics devices around the world, excellent video quality, scale of existing usage, availability of tools and content authoring systems, and overall industry momentum--each an important factor that contributes to our point of view," he said. "H.264 also provides the best certainty and clarity with respect to legal rights from the many companies that have patents in this area."

Source: CNET

[oZ.]

less people are using FireFox :(

[DKT27]

Nah. Firefox still rocks.

Marik's way: Firefox :win:

[shought]

Not sure what these percentages represent, because I know a lot of people using multiple browsers so if you ask me the total percentage should be above 100, but it is not...

[DKT27]

It can be something like: I use Firefox 99% and 1% Chrome. My friend uses 99% Chrome and 1% Firefox. So it's 50-50% on the chart.

[irefay]

less people are using FireFox :(

I would look at it more as "less people are using IE" Ideally it may be best for public development or at least open source developed browsers. There are just way too many advantages to transparency.

For instance. I bought a Mac Book Pro. Hardware Quality is phenomenal. Of course I run Windows 7 (no OS X on it at all). Apple being the a-holes they are dont like me running non-OSX windows, so I have to deal with random freezes constantly. No error log, no info on what is causing it.

Now if Apple were a transparent company, someone would figure this out and release a custom build to repair what ever is broken. No such luck for me though. Instead I will probably be going to a Thinkpad this summer.

[nocer]

less people are using FireFox :(

Nah, less and less people using IE8 like me... :( There's FF/Chrome installed of course on my PC but...well,

there's no definitive reasons that I'm staying on IE8 now but just wanna see how IE9 goes.