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January 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the world’s most used browser, but it and Mozilla’s Firefox lost a lot of market share at the expense of Google’s Chrome, which is now firmly in second place.
According to StatCounter’s 2011 data, Internet Explorer currently has a 39% market share, Chrome is at 27%, while Firefox holds 25% of the market.
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Safari and Opera follow with 6% and 2% market share, respectively.
These numbers alone don’t tell the whole story, however. Internet Explorer started 2011 with a 46% share of the market, and Firefox was over 30%. Both browsers steadily lost their share throughout the year at the expense of Chrome, which is clearly the year’s biggest gainer.
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Net Applications’ numbers for 2011 are very different, with Internet Explorer having a much bigger lead (52%), but the trends are similar: Chrome was the only clear winner in 2011, having jumped from 10% to 19% market share.
Interestingly, Net Applications sees Firefox’ current market share almost exactly where it started 2011: at 22%.
Regardless of whose number you believe, it seems that Chrome is on a roll, and its steep upward trajectory shows that other browser makers should take notice. Otherwise, we may have a new king of the browser market in a year or two.
[via The Verge]
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, alexsl
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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