Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has finally become the world’s most-used browser, according to Net Applications’ figures based on monitoring website usage. IE8 has taken over from IE6.
In January 2010, NetApps reckons IE8 had 22.31% of the market, with IE6 on 20.07%. Firefox 3.5 took third place with 17.01%, ahead of IE7 (14.58%), Firefox 3.0 (5.29%), Google Chrome (3.92%) and Apple Safari (3.55%). Actually, IE8′s lead is even larger if its 3% market share in “compatibility mode” is counted.
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