Google Chrome's growth outpaces Internet Explorer
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 04 May 2010, 22:47 IST   |    2 Comments
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Google Chrome's growth outpaces Internet Explorer
Bangalore: Google's Chrome web browser continued to gain market share in April with an increase of 0.60 percent to a total of 6.73 percent. This increase was mostly at the expense of Internet Explorer, whose usage share dropped at a rate of 0.7 percent month-to-month to 59.95 percent. Chrome's usage share has grown steadily since its release in December 2008, according to NetApplications. Microsoft last month released a preview of Internet Explorer 9 at the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas. According to Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, "IE9 is the first browser to take standard web patterns that developers use and run them better on modern PCs through Windows." The new elements, supported by IE9 include HTML5, the evolving next-generation standard for Web pages, including CSS3, Scalable Vector Graphics, XHTML parsing, and tags for H.264/MPEG4 and MP3/AAC codecs. According to the latest NetApplications usage share, Firefox 3.6 saw a huge jump in market share since January 2010 where it started with 1.15 percent. In case of Apple's Safari, there is a gain of 0.07 percent, rising to 4.72 percent. But, another player in the game, Opera fell by an equal amount to 2.30 percent.

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