Chrome 15 Beats Out IE8 As World’s Most Popular Browser - nolandrowend

Google Chrome 15 is the well-nig popular web web browser in the world passing Internet IE 8, reported to web analytics resolute StatCounter. Chrome 15 just barely beat out its Microsoft rival first 'tween November 21 and 27 with 23.63 percentage of the international web browser market share compared to IE8's 23.5 percent. Mozilla's Firefox 8 trailed behind at a distant third with 12.12 percent of worldwide usage during the same time period.

Chromium-plate 15 Continues Ball-shaped Surge

Chrome 15's worldwide popularity doesn't appear to be slowing since stepping ahead of IE8 in late November. Between the week of December 5 and 11 (StatCounter's just about recent numbers), Chrome 15 not merely beat out IE8 overall but was also to a greater extent nonclassical during the regular workday. "Chromium-plate 14 and 15 have been passing IE8 at weekends since the offse of October," StatCounter Chief operating officer Aodhan Cullen said in a statement announcing the Chrome 15 findings. "It looks as if people [favored] Chrome on weekends at home, but office commercial use of goods and services has at present caught risen."

StatCounter's latest weekly count (December 5-11) has Chromium-plate 15 at 24.55 percent of global market share and IE8 at 22.16 percent.

In the U.S., IE8 is still much democratic than Chrome 15, according to StatCounter. IE8 freshly accounted for 27 percent of the American browser grocery betwixt December 5 and 11, compared to Chromium-plate 15's 18.1 percent.

Id est Still Bests Chrome Away Brand

While Chrome 15 may Be gaining steam worldwide, Internet Explorer is still more popular overall when you count altogether web browser version numbers engaged such as IE 6, 7, 8, 9 and Chrome 14 and 15. During the period of time 'tween November 21 and 27, IE owned 40.09 percentage worldwide usage while Chrome accounted for 26.31 percent, followed by Firefox at 25.07 pct. Earlier in December, StatCounter reported that Chrome work over down Firefox to become the 2nd most popular browser in the global.

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