Firefox reaps benefits as IE loses ground
September 2, 2009 in News by Alastair Otter
Last Microsoft Internet Explorer posted its largest market share loss since November 2008, while Firefox reaped nearly all the benefit, gaining almost 1% according to Web metrics company Net Applications. Meanwhile, Google’s Chrome continued to gain on Apple’s Safari, closing to within 1.25%. At Chrome’s current pace, it will replace Safari as the number 3 browser within the year.
But it was the biggest browser by share, Internet Explorer (IE), that saw its numbers change the most in August, when it dropped 1.1% to 66.6%. The slide was IE’s steepest since last November, said Net Applications, when Microsoft’s browser plunged by 2%.
Full story at Computer World