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

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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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You think maybe also the downward trend of IE is due to scripts & malicious code exploits?

Seems these days web developers are doing much better at non-IE support and I guess some of the above stats explain why.

I like my Firefox because I can easily disable flash & ad content. I don't really use Windows outside work so can't say if there are any IE equivalents to AdBlock.
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