Internet Explorer falls below 50 percent global marketshare, Chrome usage triple

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james99

Discussion Starter · Oct 5, 2010

Oh, IE, it pains us to do this to you. You who once so mightily won in the battle against Netscape Navigator now seem to be losing your war against a battalion of upstarts, relatively fresh faces like Firefox and Chrome. According to StatCounter, IE's global usage stats have fallen to 49.87 percent, a fraction of a tick beneath half. Firefox makes up the lion share of the rest, at 31.5 percent, while Chrome usage tripled since last year, up to 11.54 percent. Two years ago IE had two thirds of the global market locked down, and even if Internet Explorer 9 is the best thing since ActiveX, well, we just don't see the tide of this battle turning without MS calling in some serious reinforcements.

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How is web browser defined in these stats? Are mobile phones counted in the overall stats? What about the iPad? IMHO these types of stats are going to become a lot less meaningful given the market share advances of tablets, smartphones, etc. I am pretty sure that I have read that China has more people accessing the net from phonesnthan from PCs! And I wouldn't be surprised if that was also the case in India.

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Wayne

· #16 · Oct 10, 2010

Since the Statcounter site uses Flash it isn't viewable iPads or many smartphones. And even when they give stats for Safari - does that include Safari on all OSes including iOSes?

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