Google Chrome the only browser to show market growth in February
While it isn’t exactly the dominant Web browser in the marketplace yet, Chrome is continuing to add users at the expense of the older browsers.
Net Marketshare released its browser statistics for February, and the only one to show even marginal growth was Google Chrome. Chrome grew from 5.22 percent in January to 5.61 percent in February while Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari all saw minor drops, so it’s fairly easy to assume that Chrome’s growth from users abandoning their old browsers.
The current statistics date back to April 2009, and at that time Chrome was at 1.79 percent, so it has seen significant gains since then. Internet Explorer has lost over 5 percent, Firefox has grown about 0.5 percent, Safari has gained under just under 1 percent and Opera has grown by 0.31 percent. It looks like it is Internet Explorer, which still sits at a healthy 61.58 percent is the one that most people are abandoning.
As the statistics don’t break down by version number, we don’t know if it is just losses from the much hated Internet Explorer 6, or if it is across the board drops.
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