Internet Explorer Continues To Lead The Web Browser Market In July While Chrome Is Rapidly Gain

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Net Applications today released their latest worldwide browser market share stats for the month of July. Internet Explorer market share is up 0.37%, from 58.38 percent to 58.01 percent. Among the Internet Explorer versions, IE11 showed a slight slip by_0.25% from 17.03 percent to 16.78 percent. Internet Explorer 8 remains the most popular browser in the market with about 21.56% market share. Developer’s nightmare IE6 is now at 3.52%, we expect the number to go down in the coming months as Microsoft has ended the support for Windows XP in which it was the default browser. Among other browsers, Google Chrome gained nearly 1% to grab 20.37% of the browser market while Firefox lost few percentage to now hold 15.08% of the market.

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July saw the ninth full month of IE11 availability with Windows 8.1, as well as the release of Chrome 36 and Firefox 31. The latest numbers from Net Applications show that Chrome was once again the only major winner last month, further widening its second place lead over Firefox. Between June and July, IE fell 0.37 percentage points (from 58.38 percent to 57.88 percent), Chrome gained 1.03 percentage points (from 19.34 percent to 20.37 percent), and Firefox fell 0.46 percentage points (from 15.54 percent to 15.08 percent). Safari meanwhile slipped 0.12 percentage points to 5.16 percent and Opera dipped 0.06...

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