Browser Wars – Chrome Displaces Safari, Now At No. 3
Posted on January 5th, 2010 by dhirender
Helped by the beta release for Mac and Linux, introduction of extentions similar to Firefox not to mention its blazing speeds, Chrome increased it’s market share from 3.93% in November to 4.63% in December to overtake Apple’s Safari and become the world’s third-most popular browser just 16 months after its debut according to Net Applications.
The December stats show that Firefox fell slightly, from 24.72% to 24.61%, while IE fell almost 1% from 63.62% to 62.69%. Safari though slipped to 4th place managed to increase it’s share slightly from 4.36% to 4.46%, while Opera, in fifth position, grew from 2.31% to 2.4%
Now, for the battle between Chrome and Firefox.
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