Chrome Overtakes Safari In Browser Wars

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      Google Chrome has overtaken Apple Safari to become the third-largest browser in the U.S., according to December statistics from web analytics firm StatCounter.

      Meanwhile, market leader Microsoft Internet Explorer continued to lose the most market share; nearly two percentage points from the month before. Users appeared to be migrating to Google Chrome, which rose 1.55 percentage points, and Safari, which saw a modest 0.24 percent gain. Globally, Microsoft has even more reason for concern. In Europe, Mozilla Firefox narrowly overtook it to become the most popular browser in the entire continent. "This is the first time that IE has been dethroned from the number one spot in a major territory," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO of StatCounter, in a statement. "We are probably seeing the impact of the agreement between European Commission competition authorities and Microsoft, to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March last," he said, referring to last year's regulation forbidding Microsoft to bundle IE in Windows.

      According to Statcounter data, IE's global market share dipped below 50 percent for the first time in October 2010. Google Chrome gained the most from the slack, but with roughly 14 percent of the global market, it still has some ways to go before it can overtake Microsoft. Mozilla Firefox held a steady second place last year, veering little from 31 percent of the pie. StatCounter's data was aggregated from a sample exceeding 15 billion page views a month, with 4.9 billion coming from North America. The study didn't account for IE 9 Beta, however, Microsoft's latest salvo in the browser wars. Earlier this week Microsoft said IE 9 Beta has been downloaded more than 20 million times.

Source from PCMag

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